Performance Evaluation of Message-Oriented Middleware Using the SPECjms2007 Benchmark

Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) is at the core of a vast number of financial services and telco applications, and is gaining increasing traction in other industries, such as manufacturing, transportation, health-care and supply chain management. Novel messaging applications, however, pose some serious performance and scalability challenges. In this paper, the authors present a methodology for performance evaluation of MOM platforms using the SPECjms2007 standard benchmark. SPECjms2007 is based on a novel application in the supply chain management domain designed to stress MOM infrastructures in a manner representative of real-world applications.