TIBCO Products - JMS vs. Rendezvous, Queue vs. Topic, Route vs. Bridge

Hi again,

When dealing with TIBCO products you can easily get confused by many related buzz words or methodologies.
I've decided to write a brief comprasion.

Rendezvous	JMS
Radio broadcaster	Telephone	Real-life example
Yes	No	Sending messages to all clients
No	Yes	Requires server
No	Yes	Persistence
No	Yes	Reliable messaging
Yes	No	High-Speed messaging
-	Yes	Clustering & Failover

  

 

 

Topic	Queue
Publish/Subscribe model	Point-to-Point model	Architecture
Multiple clients subscribe to the message	Only one consumer gets the message	Number of clients
No	Yes	Messages sent by order
No	Yes	Messages are processes only once
No	Yes	Destination is known
Yes	No	Consumer needs to be active
No	Yes	Consumer Acknowledgement

 

 

 

Bridge	Route
On the same server	On different server	Route messages to a queue
Yes	No	Possible to have different type of source and destination (For instance: queue to topic)
No	Yes (Topic only)	Can be transitive   (a->b->c means a->c)
Yes	Yes (Topic only)	Filters via selectors
Yes	No	Restart JMS server when config changes
-	Single-Hop	Hops allowed
bridges.conf	routes.conf	Config file