Definitions for "Message-Driven Bean"
Keywords:  jms, ejb, bean, asynchronous, invoked
An enterprise bean that is an asynchronous message consumer. A message-driven bean has no state for a specific client, but its instance variables can contain state across the handling of client messages, including an open database connection and an object reference to an EJB object. A client accesses a message-driven bean by sending messages to the destination for which the bean is a message listener.
a bean instance that can listen to messages from the JMS
a complete enterprise bean, just like a session or entity bean, but there are some important differences
Keywords:  consumer, container, called
a message consumer that can be called by its container