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| sebastia |
 Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:28 pm Post subject: node.js access to MQ API |
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It's been quite long since we have MQCB() and I think it is the way to implement the access to MQ from node.js
Googl'ing shows access from node.js to RabbitMQ, zeroMQ, etc, but not Websphere MQ
Can you tell if such a library has been implemented or is on the way ?
I am not interested in MQ Light, by the way.
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:46 am Post subject: Re: node.js access to MQ API |
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| sebastia wrote: |
It's been quite long since we have MQCB() and I think it is the way to implement the access to MQ from node.js
Googl'ing shows access from node.js to RabbitMQ, zeroMQ, etc, but not Websphere MQ
Can you tell if such a library has been implemented or is on the way ?
I am not interested in MQ Light, by the way.
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In MQ 8.0.0.2 there is a beta. You need to set the qmgr cmd level to 8.0.0.1
This will give you a channel that acts as an endpoint for AMQP. (node.js).
Have fun 
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| sebastia |
| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:50 am Post subject: |
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I am very interested ...
I can have mq v8 by tomorrow
Fix pack 8.0.0.2 - no problem
Cmd level - no problem
But I'd like to have some doc - does it come withe Fix Pack ?
Is there any pointer available ?
Any URL ?
Does this feature have a "name" so I can Google it ?
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| sebastia |
| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:59 am Post subject: |
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AMQP is implemented in MQ Light
Unfortunatelly, as far as I know, MQ Light does not interact with MQ.
Correct me if I am wrong. |
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| sebastia |
| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:07 am Post subject: |
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Did you read the full post or just the top. At the time the question was asked MQ 8.0.0.2 with AMQP beta was not out yet.
The mechanism to talk to js.node back and forth is via pub/sub.
Have fun
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:08 am Post subject: |
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You *could* also use MQTT...  |
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| sebastia |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 2:50 am Post subject: |
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Jeff - I played around MQTT when it came out and skipped to MOSQUITTO after a while. In fact, I have half a dozen of VMs publishing "I am alive" message to a central site using REXX.
Are you saying that now I can access MQTT from NODE.JS ?
Because there was a C API, and a PERL and a CURL and a JAVA access in those days, but no node.js ...
And still nothing in
>>> http://mosquitto.org/api/files/mosquitto-h.html
Can you provide any pointer, url or whatever ?
Thanks.
The fact is, as node.js runs everything on CallBack() functions, and MQ did implement it (in v7.0 I'd say), I got the feeling those two products were ment to join someday.
Imagine this APP.JS :
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app.get( '/connect-to-mq', function ( req, res ) {
var MyParams = req.params.myparams ;
MyMQ.connect ( MyParams, function ( err, result ) {
if ( err ) {
console.log( "--- Cant connect to QMGR. Error is (%s)." ) ;
res.status( 500 ).send( "--- connect error." ) ;
} else {
res.status( 200 ).send( "+++ connect OK." ) ;
} ; // else
} ) ; // connect CallBack
. . .
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:27 am Post subject: |
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You should be able to use the websockets interface of mqtt to connect to MQTT from any JavaScript runtime - Node.js for example...  |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:50 am Post subject: |
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Typically node.js connects to an MQLight server identified by host and port?
Replace this by the AMQP channel of MQ8.0.0.2 giving the MQ host and the port for the AMQP channel...
Direct connection achieved...
Try the Beta!
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
Typically node.js connects to an MQLight server identified by host and port?
Replace this by the AMQP channel of MQ8.0.0.2 giving the MQ host and the port for the AMQP channel...
Direct connection achieved...
Try the Beta! |
Typically, node.js connects to whatever it's been programmed to connect to.
you certainly can't say it typically connects to MQLight, given that node.js has existed longer than MQLight, and MQLight is not nearly as widespread as node.js...
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| sebastia |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 5:14 am Post subject: |
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mr Jeff - ou idea "use the websockets interface of mqtt to connect to MQTT from any JavaScript runtime - Node.js for example" seems excelent to me.
First I have to study "websockets interface of mqtt", of course
Do you agree this is a good starting point
>>> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKHH_9.0.0/com.ibm.etools.mft.doc/bc31741_.htm
... or you do have a better one ?
I am a person who needs a running sample to settle everyting at start, the "hello world", as I come from the Pascal world, where this approach was first used (as far as I remember).
And there is a question I have to say :
do you think IBM will continue with MQTT ?
I have read something of MQTT being dropped in favour of MOSQUITTO, this one being "open source".
In this case I have to study "websockets interface to mosquitto", right ?
In the URL
>>> http://mosquitto.org/
I find ...
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Version 1.4 released
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Websockets support in the broker.
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Thanks. Sebastian. |
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| sebastia |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 5:26 am Post subject: |
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mr Saper - correct me if I am wrong, but I understand tha MQlight does NOT provide connection to "classic MQ".
But in your URL
>> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/messaging/entry/mq_support_for_mq_light_beta_now_available?lang=en
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The beta function allows you to deploy applications that your developers have written using MQ Light, against an existing MQ network.
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This line is not easy to understand.
It says "deploy applications againt an existing MQ network",
(maybe apps use mq net to send/rcv "mqlight messages related to mqlight objects only)
... but it DOES NOT SAY
"those applications can access old standard MQ objects" ...
Anyway, thanks for the pointer - I shall test it.
Sebastian almost always reads ALL the post, as the words of clever people that spend some time trying to help him ARE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED !!!
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 5:35 am Post subject: |
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No, that's really specific to MessageBroker.
| sebastia wrote: |
| ... or you do have a better one ? |
This seems good:
http://oliversmith.io/technology/2011/01/29/node-js-mqtt-and-websockets/
It talks about connecting to mosquito, but mqtt is mqtt is mqtt... You can replace mosquito with an MQTT bridge in MQ - or even better use a MessageSight virtual machine... to connect to MQ itself.
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And there is a question I have to say :
do you think IBM will continue with MQTT ? |
I can not overemphasis this.
MQTT is at the heart of several of IBM's key strategic initiatives.
If IBM drops MQTT, or does not continue with it, it will because something has drastically changed.
MQTT is to a large degree the future of IBM. It is particularly behind all of the strategy on the Internet of Things and the IBM Internet of Things Foundation (IOTF).
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| I have read something of MQTT being dropped in favour of MOSQUITTO, this one being "open source". |
MOSQUITO is an MQTT broker. It's not a protocol. You would use it instead of the MQ bridge or MessageSight or any other messaging server that supports MQTT. But MessageSight in particular has a lot more features... (I may be biased here... ) |
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