High Performance JMS Messaging

Question

I read slides from this year\'s UberConf and one of the speakers is making the argument that Spring JMS adds a performance overhead to your message queue system, however I d

Answer 1

Are you talking about Mark Richards' slides? He posted source code for his benchmarks, so you can actually test his assertion about JmsTemplate performance. His benchmark code does use Spring's CachingConnectionFactory, and yet in spite of the caching it still demonstrates a significant performance penalty with JmsTemplate. I have executed, profiled and analyzed his code. The short answer is that the overhead from JmsTemplate is negligible and the measurable performance disparity in his code has to do with ActiveMQ's async vs sync sending modes. I posted my analysis here:

JmsTemplate is not evil