Towards JMS Compliant Group Communication

Group communication provides communication primitives with various semantics and their use greatly simplifies the development of highly available services. However, despite tremendous advances in research and numerous prototypes, group communication stays confined to small niches and academic prototypes. In contrast, message-oriented middleware such as the Java Messaging Service (JMS) is widely used, and has become a defacto standard. We believe that the lack of standard interfaces is the reason that hinders the deployment of group communication systems. Sinc