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On the other hand, if you are planning to connect different business partners (for
example, Java and .NET applications), or you are simply building a new system
from scratch with no clear interactions defined, it would be better to use web ser-
vices for transport and connection.
to Your Applications
, which should provide you with a quite complete overview of
your EAI alternatives.
A real-world example - HornetQ and ActiveMQ
integration
In this section we will provide an example scenario, which includes an external com-
ponent such as Apache ActiveMQ (Apache 2.0 open source licensed) message
broker that fully implements the Java Message Service 1.1 (JMS).
Within the ActiveMQ message broker, we have configured a JMS queue named
TicketQueue
, which can be used to buy our tickets from another Java EE web ap-
plication deployed on Apache Geronimo:
In order to run this example, we would need to pick up the ActiveMQ resource
adapter,
activemq-rar-5.7.0.rar
, which can be downloaded from the Maven
Installing the ActiveMQ resource adapter
Resource adapters (
.rar
) can be deployed either using JBoss management instru-
ments or, for standalone servers, by copying the resource adapter into the
deploy-
ments
directory. Before doing that, we need to configure the Resource Adapter in
your server configuration. This can be done by adding the configuration in the JCA
