New JMS Client in Spring Boot 4

December 15th, 2025

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Spring Spring boot Advent of Spring

Introduction

Spring Boot 4 has been released last month! Considering all the new features it has, I decided to write about these features throughout the month of December. It will be an advent of Spring Boot 4 related tips!

Within the recent version of Spring, we’ve clearly seen a move towards clean fluent clients such as the WebClient, RestClient and JdbcClient. Since Spring Boot 4, there’s a new kid on the block called the JmsClient!

Set up

Setting up the JmsClient is pretty easy. As soon as you have any JMS starter configured (eg. spring-boot-starter-activemq), then the JmsClient is automatically created for you!

After that, you can autowire it and start using it:

jmsClient
    .destination(Application.TOPIC)
    .send("Hello World");

You can also set additional parameters such as:

jmsClient
    .destination(Application.TOPIC)
    .withDeliveryDelay(1_000)
    .withPriority(1)
    .withTimeToLive(10_000)
    .send("Hello World");

In theory, you can also use it to receive messages, for example:

jmsClient
    .destination(Application.TOPIC)
    .receive(String.class)
    .ifPresent(message -> log.info("Message received: {}", message));

However, this doesn’t make much sense as you don’t know beforehand how many messages you want to receive. So for receiving messages, using the @JmsListener annotation is probably still the best:

@JmsListener(destination = Applicatin.TOPIC)
public void receiveMessage(String message) {
    log.info("Received message: {}", message);
}

Conclusion

The new JmsClient is a clean and fluent alternative to JmsTemplate. If you’re using Spring Boot 4 and JMS, you should definitely check it out!

This blogpost is a part of the Advent of Spring Boot 2025 series.