Re: JMS vs Sockets -- bandwidth, size, speed, etc.
On 12/27/2012 6:13 AM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
On 12/27/2012 03:35 AM, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
JMS is about topic management, queue management, message persistence,
and reliable distribution in a complex environment prone to failures.
If you don't need any of that, like a log host, you'll be much happier
with a plain socket. If you do need that stuff you probably want a JMS
implementation rather than writing it yourself.
JMS services are typically very heavy weight. Memory and disk space are
needed to buffer data to nodes that temporarily fall behind or go
offline. Configuration can take a while too.
It's funny how people can come at things from a different perspective.
In my world messaging providers like JMS providers or WMQ (and JMS and
MQ clients) are _lightweight_. I actually stopped and tried to process
your "novel" concept for a few seconds. :-)
JMS can be what you make it be.
A non-persisted non-transactional queue with sender and
receiver in same JVM and a clustered persisted transactional
with XA queue with queue, sender and receiver in 3 different
JVM's are pretty different in relation to overhead and
infrastructure requirements.
Arne
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