| Re: [jakarta.ee-spec] Defining Jakarta EE 12 Scope in Program Plan: JMS |
I will readily admit I don't know as much about Kafka but I do know the Messaging specification and implementations quite well. I did speak internally with folks that work on the Microsoft messaging products including Service Bus and Event Hubs. Should we see tangible signs that Jakarta Messaging still has enough active stakeholders to move forward, these teams will be in a position to directly contribute.
What they told me is that Messaging in it's current form cannot be bridged to Kafka easily. However, a modernized and streamlined Jakarta Messaging Lite could indeed act as a bridge to Kafka (personally I suspect anyone that can write a bridge like this will quickly have a very successful project on their hands). The situation is much the same for something like Azure Event Hubs. It's more possible to support JMS via something like Azure Service Bus (which is a much older product line than Azure Event Hubs and Kafka - with similar ethos to the Java EE/J2EE era JMS).
From Reza's doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U2qEqF9K969t5b3YuX4cwex5LJPvF3bt1w27cdKNpDM/edit?usp=sharing
Why does modernizing Messaging matter?
JMS has been one of the key specifications in Java EE. It was virtually synonymous with messaging in Java for a long time. ... In past years, Kafka has largely replaced JMS for Cloud Native messaging. ... Messaging must be urgently modernized to address these problems.
I've been wondering about this for quite some time. Is it possible to extend JMS so that it works for Kafka and perhaps cloud message services? That would make it very relevant again. It looks like Spring Messaging handles Kafka.
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