Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Java Message Service
     
         (JMS) An {API} for accessing
        enterprise messaging systems from {Java} programs.  Java
        Message Service, part of the {J2EE} suite, provides standard
        APIs that Java developers can use to access the common
        features of enterprise message systems.  JMS supports the
        {publish/subscribe} and {point-to-point} models and allows the
        creation of message types consisting of arbitrary Java
        objects.  JMS provides support for administration, security,
        error handling, and recovery, optimisation, distributed
        transactions, message ordering, message acknowledgment, and
        more.
     
        {Home (http://java.sun.com/products/jms)}.
     
        {Overview
       
     (http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Networking/messaging/)}.
     
        (2001-06-22)