30.2. Sending Messages from within Java EE components

@MessageDriven(name = "MDBMessageSendTxExample",
  activationConfig =
    {
      @ActivationConfigProperty
        (propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue"),
      @ActivationConfigProperty
        (propertyName = "destination", propertyValue = "queue/testQueue")
    })
@TransactionManagement(value= TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
@TransactionAttribute(value= TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
public class MDBMessageSendTxExample implements MessageListener
{
   @Resource(mappedName = "java:/JmsXA")
   ConnectionFactory connectionFactory;

   @Resource(mappedName = "queue/replyQueue")
   Queue replyQueue;

   public void onMessage(Message message)
   {
      Connection conn = null;
      try
      {
         //Step 9. We know the client is sending a text message so we cast
         TextMessage textMessage = (TextMessage)message;

         //Step 10. get the text from the message.
         String text = textMessage.getText();

         System.out.println("message " + text);

         conn = connectionFactory.createConnection();

         Session sess = conn.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);

         MessageProducer producer = sess.createProducer(replyQueue);

         producer.send(sess.createTextMessage("this is a reply"));

      }
      catch (Exception e)
      {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
      finally
      {
         if(conn != null)
         {
            try
            {
               conn.close();
            }
            catch (JMSException e)
            { 
            }
         }
      }
   }
   }