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Consume from Kafka topics using Message Driven Beans

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Abhishek

Thanks to the recently released Payara Kafka Connector, you can now consume messages from Kafka using Message Driven Beans! Here is a Docker based example for trying it out. Quick overview A @Singleton bean fires a producer process which run in … Continue reading →

Posted in Java EE | Tagged ejb, javaee, jca, kafka, mdb, message driven beans, payara | 2 Comments

MDB != JMS and vice-versa

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Abhishek

Basics A Message Driven Bean (further referred to as MDB) is just another EJB like Stateless, Stateful or a Singleton. It’s specified using the @MessageDriven annotation. MDBs are used for asynchronous message processing They are similar to Stateless EJBs since … Continue reading →