This "article":http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/02/22/asynchronous-messaging-with-spring-jms.html provides an overview of the Spring JMS API and how to use it to process (send and receive) messages asynchronously in a sample web application running in a JBoss MQ server. I will compare the traditional way of implementing JMS with a Spring JMS implementation to show how easy and flexible it is to process messages using Spring JMS.

h1. Java Message Service

The Java Message Service (JMS) API is a messaging standard that allows application components based on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) to create, send, receive, and read messages. It enables distributed communication that is loosely coupled, reliable, and asynchronous.