Configuring the Java Message Service for WebLogic Server

Java™ Message Service (JMS) is used as the messaging standard to create, send, receive, and read messages from queues. This process enables distributed communication with external systems in a loosely coupled, reliable, and asynchronous manner.

Before you begin

Configuration of JMS requires the understanding of buses, connection factories, queues, activation specifications, and stores. To set up the JMS configuration, you must be familiar with the configuration details for your application server.

  1. Creating queue stores
    You create Java Message Service (JMS) stores to store the persistent messages. For sequential outbound queues, you create the queue stores for each cluster to ensure that specific cluster downtime does not affect other clusters. For other queue types (sequential inbound queue and continuous inbound queue), you ensure that they are configured for the integration framework and cron task clusters.
  2. Creating Java Message Service servers
    Java Message Service (JMS) servers manage JMS queue and topic resources. The queue and topic resources are defined within JMS modules that are targeted to a specific JMS server. JMS servers also maintain information about the store that you use for persistent messages that are received on queue destinations.
  3. Creating Java Message Service modules
    Java Message Service (JMS) modules are configuration containers for JMS resources. The JMS modules store the information for the connection factories that queues are configured to use.
  4. Creating Java Database Connectivity data sources in WebLogic Server
    When you create a data source provider, you must create the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) data source, which specifies the connection information for the database.
  5. Creating data stores for WebLogic Server
    When you create data sources, you must create a data store for each of the four queues. Stores are used to hold the queue messages.
  6. Creating Java Message Service connection factories in WebLogic Server
    When you create a Java Message Service (JMS) module, you must create a connection factory to access bus destinations. The connection factory specifies the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) name.
  7. Activating Java Message Service connection factories in WebLogic Server
    When you create connection factories, you must activate them.
  8. Java Message Service configuration for WebLogic Server
    You use Java Message Service (JMS) servers to manage queue and topic resources, and to maintain information about queue stores.
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