Patent ID: 7634550

Claim:
A Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) provider apparatus comprising: an application server comprising a processor and a memory; a first logical MOM server instance, identified by a first MOM server instance identifier, to provide a MOM service to a first client; and a second logical MOM server instance, identified by a second MOM server instance identifier different than the first MOM server instance identifier, to provide a MOM service to a second client; the first logical MOM server instance and the second logical MOM server instance are implemented on the application server; and each of the first logical MOM server instance and the second logical MOM server instance comprising: a session container to manage one or more message sessions; and a destination container having a destination identified by a destination identifier, wherein the destination of each logical MOM server instance is associated with a globally unique destination identifier comprising a combination of the destination identifier and one of the first MOM server instance identifier or the second MOM server instance identifier.