Enterprise landscape is incomplete without JMS—it is one of the most commonly used mediums of enterprise integration. Spring provides very good support for this. Spring Integration builds over that support and provides adapter and gateways to receive and consume messages from many middleware brokers such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Rediss, and so on.

Spring Integration provides inbound and outbound adapters to send and receive messages along with gateways that can be used in a request/reply scenario. Let's walk through these implementations in a little more detail. A basic understanding of the JMS mechanism and its concepts is expected. It is not possible to cover even the introduction of JMS here. Let's start with the prerequisites.