J2EE applicability for mission-critical Java Client-to-App Server architecture

[Azbel Eden]

Hello fellows.
In order to have a solid knowledge and preparation to propose what J2EE techonology is the best for a certain situation, I would like to know what would be the best technology for the following scenario: hundreds of Swing-based clients connected directly to an application server (maybe propose connect to the Web server).

Other points to consider:
- Sent information is XML
- Thousands of transactions (orders) in the server
- Good performance is mandatory

My initial approach is to implement asynchronous (for best performance) JMS message producers on the client side, leverage the JMS service of the application server and finally EJB MDB as JMS consumers to handle the application logic (transform XML and perform database updates).

Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

[Andrew Monkhouse]

The SCEA forum is meant for discussion of the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect Exam. So your question does not really belong here.

I have moved this topic to the Application Frameworks forum.

Regards, Andrew