Pluggable Java EE-based Architecture for Efficient Coupling of Event-based Applications

In many enterprises, business functions are spreaded across multiple applications. In order to provide efficient, reliable and secure data exchange between applications, these components need to be integrated. In this context, component based technologies have become very popular. Component architectures such as Java EE facilitate rapid and flexible application development. Nowadays, messaging system are frequently used to enable high-speed, asynchronous, program-to-program messaging. In spite of the many existing asynchronous communication solutions, there is a need for an efficient generic messaging model. In this article we present the architecture of a pluggable messaging system targeted at enterprise applications. This model was used to implement a fully functional prototype using Java EE specific technologies. To evaluate our messaging system, performance tests were done. Results from this evaluation show that the system is capable of efficient asynchronous communication.