Correct me if I am wrong, please...
In Chapter 9 - Supporting services JMS
of the Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework
by Rod Johnson et al.
John Wiley & Sons 2005 ISBN:0764574833
I am reading:
'We've focused here on publishing messaging, and seen how Spring can make this much easier. Spring1.3 is scheduled to have sophisticated support for consuming JMS messages, with a powerful alternative to Message Driven Beans for asynchronous processing. This will enable Spring to shoulder more of the responsibility formerly associated with EJBs.'
I believe that Spring v.2 is the current name for the previous nomenclature of Spring 1.3
Yet do we have the above 'sophisticated support for consuming JMS messages, with a powerful alternative to Message Driven Beans'? I might be missing something. I guess, we do not have it yet, right? It's coming, correct? Hey, even Rome was not built in one day. I love that BBC/HBO series. I really do 
Cheers,
Arno
Spring, it's a wonderful thing...