Method and system for processing a message by a message provider

1. A method for processing a message by a message provider comprising:

receiving, for a topic, a subscription request comprising a mutual exclusion function from each application instance of a plurality of application instances,

wherein the mutual exclusion function from each application instance is a conditional expression that specifies to send messages to the application instance when an application instance selection portion mod a total number of application instances is equal to an identifier of the application instance, wherein the messages comprise the application instance selection portion;

receiving the message for the topic; and

sending the message to one application instance of the plurality of application instances based on executing each of the mutual exclusion functions,

wherein the mutual exclusion functions ensure that the message is sent to a single application instance of the plurality of application instances.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the application instance selection portion is a timestamp value.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message is a Java Messaging Service message.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of application instances is deployed on at least one application server and wherein the at least one application server is Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant.

5. A system for processing a message comprising:

a plurality of application instances;

a processor; and

a message provider, when executed by the processor, configured to:

receive, for a topic, a subscription request comprising a mutual exclusion function from each application instance of the plurality of application instances,

wherein the mutual exclusion function from each application instance is a conditional expression that specifies to send messages to the application instance when an application instance selection portion mod a total number of application instances is equal to an identifier of the application instance, wherein the messages comprise the application instance selection portion;

receive the message for the topic;

send the message to one application instance of the plurality of application instances based on executing each of the mutual exclusion functions,

wherein the mutual exclusion functions ensure that the message is sent to a single application instance of the plurality of application instances.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the application instance selection portion is a timestamp value.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the message is a Java Messaging Service message.

8. The system of claim 5 , wherein the plurality of application instances is deployed on at least one application server and wherein the at least one application server is Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code embodied therein for causing a computer system to:

receive, for a topic, a subscription request comprising a mutual exclusion function from each application instance of a plurality of application instances,

wherein the mutual exclusion function from each application instance is a conditional expression that specifies to send messages to the application instance when an application instance selection portion mod a total number of application instances is equal to an identifier of the application instance, wherein messages comprise the application instance selection portion;

receive the message for the topic; and

send the message to one application instance of the plurality of application instances based on executing each of the mutual exclusion functions,

wherein the mutual exclusion functions ensure that the message is sent to a single application instance of the plurality of application instances.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the application instance selection portion is a timestamp value.