Part I. Java Message Service destinations

Java Message Service destinations, along with Java Message Service connection factories, are administrative objects. Destinations are used by Java Message Service clients for both producing and consuming messages. The destination allows clients to specify the target when it produces messages and the source of messages when consuming messages. When using a publish-subscribe pattern, destinations are referred to as topics. When using a point-to-point pattern, destinations are referred to as queues.

Applications may use many different Java Message Service destinations which are configured on the server side and usually accessed via JNDI.