Everything About the Standard, Little About its Implementations

Somewhat shallow with a dense writing style and scattered redundancy.

You only find a description of the standard itself and how you might want to use it. In an appendix is a little information on a specific JMS message queue server: ActiveMQ. There is no comparison between different products. One has no clue how the JMS api is actually implemented.

The api itself is described in great detail and extent. This is most of the time helpful, some of the time the authors outright dumb the poor readers down. Due to a large amount of redundancy, it is possible to read all the chapters nearly independently.

In every chapter one feels the professionalism of the authors as writers and/or conference speakers. One does not feel the professionalism as actual users of JMS.

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