A Java object that handles sending/publishing a message from the server to ActiveMQ

JMS Publisher Object

package com.gateways.adapters;

import java.util.*;
import javax.jms.*;
import javax.naming.*;
import com.pojo.messages.MessageBody;

public class JMSPublisher {
	// we start by setting up our properties for the object, including the basic connection values for 
        // the messaging service -- you'll note that the _providerURL and _contextFactory properties match the 
        // value set in the messaging-config.xml file
	public String _providerURL = "tcp://localhost:61616";
	public String _contextFactory = "org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory";
	public TopicSession _pubSession;
	public TopicPublisher _publisher;
	public TopicConnection _connection;
	public ObjectMessage _message;
	
	public JMSPublisher(){
		
	}
	/* A bit too much here to go into but, basically, 
	* we setup our connection properties and create a context
	* next, we use the context to get our connection factory (TopicConnectionFactory is the name we assigned to our factory in our context.xml file ... in the Resource elements)
	* next, we create a topic session and get our topic (the topic is passed into the method so that we can dynamically get different topics with the same method
	* next, we create and populate the object message with the actual message we want (our POJO) to send
	* finally, we publish the message to our topic
	*/
	public void publishMessage(MessageBody _msg, String _topic, String _selector){
		try{
			Properties p = new Properties();
			p.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, _providerURL);
			p.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, _contextFactory);
			Context context = new InitialContext(p);
			
			Object tmp = context.lookup("TopicConnectionFactory");
			TopicConnectionFactory factory = (TopicConnectionFactory) tmp;
			
			_connection = factory.createTopicConnection();
			_pubSession = _connection.createTopicSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
			
			Topic topic = (Topic) context.lookup(_topic);			
			_publisher = _pubSession.createPublisher(topic);			
			// It's an ObjectMessage (see messaging-config.xml) message
			_message = _pubSession.createObjectMessage();
			_message.setObject(_msg);
			// This is key! If you need to filter a message, we set the selector value here
			_message.setStringProperty("subscriberSelector", _selector);
			// Finally, we actually publish the message to our ActiveMQ topic
			_publisher.publish(topic, _message, Message.DEFAULT_DELIVERY_MODE, Message.DEFAULT_PRIORITY, 5 * 60 * 1000);
		}
		catch (Exception e){
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
	// I use this message on the back-end to setup my topics when my application starts up (fired from onApplicationStart in my Application.cfc
	public void initMessages(String _topic){
		try{
			Properties p = new Properties();
			p.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, _providerURL);
			p.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, _contextFactory);
			Context context = new InitialContext(p);
			
			Object tmp = context.lookup("TopicConnectionFactory");
			TopicConnectionFactory factory = (TopicConnectionFactory) tmp;
			
			_connection = factory.createTopicConnection();
			_pubSession = _connection.createTopicSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
			
			Topic topic = (Topic) context.lookup(_topic);			
			_publisher = _pubSession.createPublisher(topic);	
			
			_publisher.close();
		}
		catch (Exception e){
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
	
}