I've been involved with developing distributed applications, mostly in java, for a few years now and until really becoming aware of the JMS, I was stuck with writing exotic protocols and worrying about the Socket layer of the application. While this is highly educational, it isn't the best way to do things when you have to get The Job done.
I was introduced to JMS and MOM via xmlBlaster, and was thrilled to death when I came across this book. I was at first a little nervous about the book because of its, what I deemed lack of, pages. But after diving into it, and reading it straight through I found that the authors ability to provide clarity meant that hundreds of pages were not needed.
This book also managed to clear up several nagging deficiencies I had with JNDI and how the whole messaging queue design works. This book should be required for anyone who is charged with designing, building and testing any type of legacy integration, messaging or distributed application project. The clear and exacting descriptions of the technologies and the real-world examples provide us readers with something we can actually see and play with (I love writing chat applications!)
I believe that this book has a shot at becoming a "bible" of sorts for those of us who write distributed apps using java. Excellent work.
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