<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><h2>How does ConnectionFactory relate to the Broker?</h2>

<p>The ConnectionFactory is a JMS specification client side interface for creating connections to a JMS broker. The Broker is a service on the network or <link><page ri:content-title="How do I embed a Broker inside a Connection"></page><link-body>embedded in the same JVM</link-body></link> which provides the message provider. So think of the ConnectionFactory as the client API for sending and receiving messages and the broker is a server side implementation.</p>

<h3>See Also</h3>

<ul><li><link><page ri:content-title="How do I create new destinations"></page></link></li><li><link><page ri:content-title="How do I embed a Broker inside a Connection"></page></link></li><li><link><page ri:content-title="What are administered objects"></page></link></li></ul>

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