A Message-driven Bean is an Enterprise Bean that operates as a consumer and executes the asynchronous processing of messages. A Message-driven Bean becomes active when a message arrives at the destination, and receives and processes the message.

This section describes the operations of the consumer Message-driven Bean.

Organization of this section

7.10.1 Features of message processing using the Message-driven Beans

7.10.2 Procedure of invoking the Message-driven Beans

7.10.3 Settings required in the Message-driven Beans

7.10.4 Setting up the transaction context