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jason_e · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 1:28 pm Post subject:

Hi,
Please excuse the lengthy post, I have been reading MQ documentation for 2 days straight and are still very uncertain. I have to setup the following environment and would appreciate it if anybody can offer me some advice.

Platform: Windows 2000 Server running MQSeries Version 5.2.1
Transport: TCPIP
Server: 2 (represented by Y and X in my description below)
Clients: 5 (represented by C1, C2, C3, C4, C5)

X must send some data (small XML file) to Y which will process it and send some XML back to X. It must be guaranteed that no messages will be duplicated and the messages will be processed in the order that they arrived.

(Y will retrieve messages from the a queue using a Java application, from what I have read it seems like it will be using JMS)

Y must also send a changed XML file to C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5. C1 to C5 must be able to receive messages and run a program that processes the message. The Java program running on C1 to C5 would also need to send messages back to Y which would then need to send them to X.

Currently my biggest problem is related to configuring the channel/queue that would be used to send messages from X to Y.

Currently I have the following:
X: defined a sender channel, create the remote queue definition, defined transmission queue
Y: defined a receiver channel, created destination queue

I can ping the channel successfully, this tells me that the channel between the X and Y is working. I now need to put a test message on the remote definition queue that exists on X to test whether it is transferred to Y. I tried to use the Right Click-Put Test Message approach but the option is not available for remote queue definitions it seems. How do I test the remote queue definition?

In summary, below is all my question.

Question 1
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How can I test whether my setup is working? (Specifically the remote queue definition on X) Would I have to write I java program or is there a quick way just to test?

Question 2
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What is the best way to retrieve messages from the queue at Y to process them? (Message are received every 2 minutes and are very time sensitive)

Question 3
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How do I keep I archive of all the messages that I send and receive? (Currently Iâ€™m thinking about handling it at application level)

Question 4
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Would the MQ client be able to receive message and send messages? (Iâ€™m thinking about using a trigger to launch the application when a message arrives at C1 to C5, that same instance of the application would then send back a message to Y.)

Question 5
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What is the best way of taking the messages received from C1 to C5 at Y and transferring them to X?

Question 6
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What security issues should I consider? In our experience what is the best method to handle security in my situation? (The network communication would be a secure virtual private network)

Question 7
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How is the best option for compression to increase the speed of message transmission? (I know there are SupportPacâ€™s to handle this.)

Thanks
Jason