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sajid08 · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:16 am Post subject:

Hi All!!

We are working to implement middleware solution for a large bank. We require the solution be to enable us toward SOA. Point to Point integration is mainly done at the moment. We want to change and put the middleware in b/w. The most important question of all is which architecture and products to choose.

IBM offers quiet a few fantastic products for integration solutions, but the problem is we are not familiar with them and what they do, so it is difficult to map them on a Architecture:

1. One architecture that we are considering is applications sending messages to WebSphere MQ, and from their Broker picks the messages up and route them according to their content or to a pre-configured way to services. But that is still pretty much point-to-point? Also one more thing we want to ask about this architecture is can we define a complete two-way message flow with this? what I mean by this is:

Application --> WebSphere MQ --> Message Broker --> Service

thats the flow, but can we define a flow in broker, where it performs the backword flow as well, meaning it picks up the reply from service and returns it to a queue where the application can pick the message? Can we correlate messages?

And the other very important thing is where to host services?

WebSphere ESB is also there, how do you see that can be used with broker or without broker?

I'd like all the expert people out there to comment or give us suggests, all of that would be highly appreciated.