JMS performance

Question

I\'m having a bit of trouble with understanding JMS from a performance perspective. We have this very straightforward code in our application:

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Answer 1

Define "to share".

If you mean to share among different threads this is very dangerous. You can safely share QueueConnectionFactory object as well as the JMS Connection object. You must not share Session, Sender/Consumer or Message objects. Thats the way how TIBCO EMS works I am not sure about IBM platform but I guess this is very same.

If you can be sure your "send" method is not called by different threads you can encapulate this into a MySender class with Connection, Session and Sender member variables. But watch out! Do properly close the resources on exit. Thats what Heiko Rupp recommends. Somthing like this:

class MySender {
    private QueueConnection connection = null;
    private QueueSession session = null;
    private QueueSender sender = null;

    public MySender(...) { /* initialize conn/sess/sender */ }

    public send(String xmlMsg) { /* sender.send(session.createTextMessage(xmlMsg)) */ }

    public close() { /* close all resources */ }
}

Regarding performance. There is no much room for improvement in JMS standard. Keep messages small and optimize server setting. Use durable destinations only when you need it etc. Read documentation for your platform. But on the client side there is not much room. Some platforms offers additional features to JMS that allows some extra performance gain (batch sends etc) but it depends on the platform. I dont know IBM.