Destination objects are used to represent addresses. The standard assumes destinations will be created in the messaging service configuration and registered in JNDI. The Session interface provides methods for creating destinations, however, these are only meant to convert textual addresses into destination objects. The textual address syntax is not standardized.

The standard distinguishes two types of destinations. A queue is a destination for point-to-point communication. A message sent to a queue is stored until it is received and thus consumed by one recipient. A topic is a destination for publish-subscribe communication. A message sent to a topic is distributed to all currently connected recipients.

Temporary queues and temporary topics, with a scope limited to a single connection, are also available.

Queue oQueue = oSession.createQueue ("SomeQueueName");
Topic oTopic = oSession.createTopic ("SomeTopicName");

Queue oTemporaryQueue = oSession.createTemporaryQueue ();
Topic oTemporaryTopic = oSession.createTemporaryTopic ();