about Pay for Itinerary

[William Liu]

In the usercase of Pay for Itinerary:
"System sends payment transaction to TransMaster and waits for authorization

System sends email confirmation of successful payment to customers email address once credit authorization is returned
".
And the TransMaster have an interface that will use XML-RPC over HTTPs.
Should I use JMS to send the payment transaction or just sent a https request to TransMaster by SLSB?

[dinesh pande]

Hi William,

I dont see a need for using JMS in the given situation, as there is no mention of asynchronous processing.

Just to add more weight to my statement, I have'nt seen any other SCEA who has used JMS as part of their assignment.

Good luck.

[Yi Meng]

Originally posted by dinesh pande:
I have'nt seen any other SCEA who has used JMS as part of their assignment.

Just curious, how could you know?

[dinesh pande]

:-) you got me..

I have'nt said that "no one used". Instead I said, "I have'nt seen any one use ..". By that, I mean I have'nt come across posts by successful SCEA candidates who mentioned that they have used JMS.

For all you know, I could be wrong and several of them could be using JMS ( which is less likely though)

[elvod]

I'm one who used JMS 'cause that way is simple
to have response timeout - valuable feature in
network communications. Beside, container is able to manage
clients' threads while waiting for response, which makes
that solution scalable.

[Gabriel Buheler]

I'm one who used JMS 'cause that way is simple
to have response timeout - valuable feature in
network communications. Beside, container is able to manage
clients' threads while waiting for response, which makes
that solution scalable.

I do not like the idea for using JMS for this:
1. "Simple to have response time." Remember one of the SLA with TransMaster of no more than 3 sec during peak time.
2. Scalability is perfectly achieved by SLSB.
3. Thread-safe too.

MDB's, when dealing with asynchronous, clearly refer to requests that might take some long time to response. Do you really think that 3 sec, is a required?

Of course, you can still use JMS components. As long as you justify the reason, specially over other J2EE components.