What is a messaging bridge? And why and where would you use it?
A messaging system is one in which applications are loosely coupled through
the exchange of messages. In crude terms it is like an e-mail system for
applications.
A messaging bridge in turns moves messages between any two messaging
systems/products. A messaging bridge consists of two destinations that are
being bridged: a source destination from which messages are received, and a
target destination to which messages are sent. Source and target bridge
destinations can be either queues or topics.
BEA WebLogic introduc... (more)
The need to run scheduled jobs is increasing and becoming common across all
J2EE applications. The current J2EE specification doesn't provide an easy way
to schedule jobs inside an enterprise application.
We can broadly classify scheduled J2EE jobs into two categories:
Server-specific scheduled jobs and application-specific scheduled jobs. This
article explores how to schedule application... (more)