[HockeyPlayer]

We are all experienced Java programmers who don't know web programming. (we are an HFT shop finally getting around to expanding the primitive GUI that controls the trading machines; we have been using Excel for 10 years).

All the clients are running in our Colorado office and we can upgrade them at will.

I think JMS or similar would probably work very well but we don't know messaging so we are having trouble knowing how best to use it.

[BjoernKW]

Getting a basic messaging bus up and running is easy enough if you’re using Spring Boot for example.

Modelling distributed asynchronous processes can cause headaches though.

Messaging helps with decoupling and scaling components but messaging systems can be difficult to test and debug.

If you need any help with that (or any other part of your software) just drop me a note (see my profile for contact details).