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| JohnRodey |
 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:18 am Post subject: Supported MQ bridges to other vendors? |
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Does anyone know where I can find a list of bridges that IBM provides to bridge to another vendors queues/topics?
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:29 am Post subject: |
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I don't think IBM provides any bridges from MQ to another queuing technology, unless you count the WBI Adapters or JMS. Well, okay. There is the MQLink for the WAS SIBus messaging provider. And there is the old MQLink for SAP integration.
Most of the other vendors provide bridges from their technologies to MQ, though.
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| JohnRodey |
| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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So there is a generic JMS adapter? All I would need to do is provide the MQ server with connection information and the other vendors jars and it will forward all traffic to that vendor? Do you know where I can get more info on that?
Also, are the terms bridge and adapter interchangable?
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: |
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No, I don't mean that there is a generic JMS adapter. There might be, I haven't looked.
Sometimes people can use "bridge" and "adapter" to mean the same thing, and sometimes "bridge" means "no business level data translation" and "adapter" means "business level data translation".
But you could, presumably, create a simple JMS program that connected to two different JMS providers and received messages from one and sent them to another.
If both providers were fully JMS compliant, then this should be sufficient.
But I haven't tried it, and I wouldn't run it in production without a lot of testing.
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| JohnRodey |
| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:43 am Post subject: |
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Do you know if WebSphere MQ will allow me to create custom adapters and I could write a generic JMS adapter and plug it in? This way we won't have to monitor the JMS process that forwards the messages.
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:48 am Post subject: |
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You could, in version 6, define a custom service.
That's not the same as a custom adapter.
The three basic mechanisms for programs to react to messages appearing on queues are 1) triggering, 2) listening, 3) API exit. But 3) can't be written in Java, and is overkill.
If I had to do this, I'd do it with a listener. And I might choose to use a custom service to start and stop that listener in sync with the queue manager.
But I'd still monitor the process.
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Oh, and, again.
If I *actually* had to do this, I'd look for a bridge made by the other vendor that talks to MQ. It's fairly likely there is one, it's fairly likely they support it, and it's even somewhat likely it's not a chargeable item.
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| Or look at using the JMS nodes in MB |
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