As part of migrating Java enterprise applications to the cloud, it is beneficial to replace parts of the technology stack with equivalent cloud services. As an example, traditional messaging services are being replaced by Amazon SQS as part of the migration to AWS. Java Messaging Service (JMS) has been a mainstay in the technology stack of Java enterprise applications. The support provided by SQS for the JMS standard helps with an almost seamless technology replacement. In this article, I have described the steps to integrate a legacy Java application with SQS through JMS.

Legacy Java Application

For the purposes of this article, a legacy Java application has the following characteristics: