In this chapter, we discussed JBoss' message-oriented middleware that allows you to loosely couple heterogeneous systems together while typically providing reliability, transactions, and many other features.
We saw how to configure JMS destinations using the web console and create some message-driven beans, which are the standard way to consume messages from within the EJB container.
We will now move on to another component, which is typically used for integrating heterogeneous systems—web services.