Basics A Message Driven Bean (further referred to as MDB) is just another EJB like Stateless, Stateful or a Singleton. It’s specified using the @MessageDriven annotation. MDBs are used for asynchronous message processing They are similar to Stateless EJBs since both of them are pooled by the EJB container However they differ from Stateless EJBs … Continue reading MDB != JMS and vice-versa