While complex broker-based and homegrown messaging systems were appropriate for monolithic IT environments, they do not answer the demands of today's distributed, high traffic environments. In order to reliably run their mission-critical systems and deploy new technologies such as SOA and RFID, both enterprises and ISVs require middleware systems...   Read Article.

XML provides an attractive means of representing business-to-business transactions, but XML itself does not provide a means for the actual receipt and publishing of information. Java messaging offers a flexible, reliable, and secure communication channel within and between enterprises, providing an optimal means of exchanging XML-based transactions....   Read Article.