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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
3.2 Connections
A connection encapsulates a virtual connection with a JMS provider. A connection could represent an open TCP/IP socket between a client and a provider service daemon. You use a connection to create one or more sessions.
Like connection factories, connections come in two forms, implementing either the QueueConnection or the TopicConnection interface. For example, once you have a QueueConnectionFactory or a TopicConnectionFactory object, you can use it to create a connection:
QueueConnection queueConnection = queueConnectionFactory.createQueueConnection(); TopicConnection topicConnection = topicConnectionFactory.createTopicConnection();
When an application completes, you need to close any connections that you have created. Failure to close a connection can cause resources not to be released by the JMS provider. Closing a connection also closes its sessions and their message producers and message consumers.
queueConnection.close(); topicConnection.close();
Before your application can consume messages, you must call the connection's start method; for details, see Section 3.5 on page 21. If you want to stop message delivery temporarily without closing the connection, you call the stop method.