Looking for some good info on JMS

hi all
i am learning about JMS and i am trying to understand the process. i have been using search engines to help me locate some documents so i can begin reading up on JMS but i get back so many hits... i become overwhelmed.
can anyone provide some good links to start with
i am looking to take basic xml files and write a small program to place the xml files on a queue... any links that maybe useful???
thanks in advance -- annie :) smiles

Hi Annie,
Have you tried this
http://java.sun.com/products/jms/tutorial/
Regards,
Sebastien Degardin

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1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
avg=1.0
ch2:
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
avg=0.0
ch3A:
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ch3B:
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1.0
1.0
1.0
avg=1.0
ch4:
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
avg=0.0

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Hello,
unless you sell your design better, I deem it is an inferior derivation of the Adapter pattern.
In the Adapter pattern, the adaptee doesn't have to be designed to support adaptation, and the instance doesn't even know at runtime whether it is adapted.
Your design makes the "modifiable" class aware of the modification, and it needs to be explicitly designed to be modifiable (in particular this constrains the implementation hierarchy). Overall DesignPattern are meant to provide flexibility, your version offers less flexibility than Adapter, as it poses more constraint on the modifiable class.
Another sign of this inflexibility is your instanceof checks.
On an unrelated note, I intensely dislike your naming choice of fill() vs _fill()+, I prefer more explicit names (I cannot provide you one as I didn't understand the purpose of this dual method, which a good name would have avoided, by the way).
That being said, I haven't followed your original problem, so I am not aware of the constraints that led you to this design.
Best regards,
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Edited by: jduprez on Mar 22, 2010 10:56 PMThank you for your input, I will try to explain my design better. First of all, as I understand it the Adapter pattern is meant to translate one interface into another. This is not at all what I am trying to do here, I am trying to keep the same interface but modify behavior of objects through composition. I started thinking about how to do this when I was trying to apply the Decorator pattern to filter some data. The way I would do that in my example here is to write an AbstractChannelDecorator that delegates all methods to the Channel it wraps:
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}(I am just shifting the data here to simplify the examples but a more realistic example would be something like a moving average filter to smooth the data).
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Now as to the other points of critique you mentioned:
I understand your dislike for such method names, I'm sorry about that, I had to come up with some way for the ChannelModifier to call ModifiableChannel's super's method equivalents. I needed some way to have the innermost wrapped object to initiate a call to the topmost ChannelModifier, but only do it once -- that was one way to do it. I suppose I could have done it with a flag and another if/else statement in each of the methods, or if you prefer, the naming convention could have been fill() and super_fill(), get() and super_get(), I didn't really think that it was that important. Anyway, those methods are not meant to be used by any other class except ChannelModifier so I probably should have made them protected.
The instanceof checks are necessary because at some point ChannelModifier instance runs into a delegate that isn't a ChannelModifier and I have to somehow detect that, because otherwise instead of calling get() I'd call get() which in ModifiableChannel would take me back up to the topmost wrapper and start the whole call chain again, so we'd be in infinite recursion. But calling get() allows me to prevent that and go straight to the original method of the innermost wrapped object.
I completely agree with you that the example I presented has limited flexibility in supporting multiple implementations. If I had two different Channel implementations I would need two ModifiableChannel classes, two ChannelModifiers, and two sets of concrete implementations -- obviously that's not good. Not to worry though, I found a way around that. Here's what I came up with, it's a modification of my original example with DefaultChannel replaced by ChannelImplementation1,2:
public class ChannelImplementation1 implements Channel { ... }
public class ChannelImplementation2 implements Channel { ... }
// this interface allows implementations to be interchangeable in ChannelModifier
public interface ModifiableChannel {
     public double super_get(int i);
     public double super_getAverage();
     public void setModifier(ChannelModifier modifier);
     public ChannelModifier getModifier();
public class ModifiableChannelImplementation1
          extends ChannelImplementation1
          implements ModifiableChannel {
     ... // see DefaultChannel in my original example
public class ModifiableChannelImplementation2
          extends ChannelImplementation1
          implements ModifiableChannel { ...}
// ChannelModifier is a Channel, but more importantly, it takes a Channel,
// not any specific implementation of it, so in effect the user has complete
// flexibility as to what implementation to use.
public class ChannelModifier implements Channel {
     protected Channel delegate;
     protected Channel root;
     protected ChannelModifier tmpModifier;
     protected boolean doSwap = true;
     public ChannelModifier(Channel delegate) {
          if(delegate instanceof ChannelModifier)
               this.root = ((ChannelModifier)delegate).root;
          else
               this.root = delegate;
          this.delegate = delegate;
     private void pre() {
          if(doSwap) {
               if(root instanceof ModifiableChannel) {
                    ModifiableChannel root = (ModifiableChannel)this.root;
                    tmpModifier = root.getModifier();
                    root.setModifier(this);
               if(delegate instanceof ChannelModifier)
                    ((ChannelModifier)delegate).doSwap = false;
     private void post() {
          if (doSwap) {
               if(root instanceof ModifiableChannel) {
                    ModifiableChannel root = (ModifiableChannel)this.root;
                    root.setModifier(tmpModifier);
          } else {
               if(delegate instanceof ChannelModifier)
                         ((ChannelModifier)delegate).doSwap = true;
     public void fill(double[] data) {
          delegate.fill(data);
     public double get(int i) {
          pre();
          double result;
          if(delegate instanceof ModifiableChannel)
// I've changed the naming convention from _get() to super_get(), I think that may help show the intent of the call
               result = ((ModifiableChannel)delegate).super_get(i);
          else
               result = delegate.get(i);
          post();
          return result;
     public double getAverage() {
          pre();
          double result;
          if(delegate instanceof ModifiableChannel)
               result = ((ModifiableChannel)delegate).super_getAverage();
          else
               result = delegate.getAverage();
          post();
          return result;
     public int size() {
          return delegate.size();
public class UpShiftedChannel extends ChannelModifier { ...}
public class DownShiftedChannel extends ChannelModifier { ... }

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