Are there any recommendations or techniques for how to avoid having to
use a request/response pattern?
I'm using the technique described here
http://activemq.apache.org/how-should-i-implement-request-response-with-jms.html.
I'm primarily doing this to get some basic configuration
Steve,
You can use a queue browse to do that. Basically, you send a message to the
queue with the information you need. Then the client will browse the queue
looking for the desired information. When you need to update that information
just consume the message and publish a new one.
You can