Some Excellent Features of IBM WebSphere MQ

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All you need to know about some amazing features of IBM WebSphere MQ

IBM WebSphere MQ is one of the amazing network software product that enables applications to communicate under many diverse computing environment. It provides smarter and faster connection to send and receive data between applications over network. It has some unique applications that makes it one of the leading middleware for messaging and queuing. To have an overall idea about this amazing product and its key functionalities, please read our previous blog: Know About Amazing IBM WebSphere MQ. Here we discuss in detail about using IBM WebSphere MQ, its amazing features and its contribution to service oriented architecture.

Using IBM WebSphere MQ

• Develop and administer IBM WebSphere MQ with the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer GUI or by executing commands from a command window or application. 
• Program applications to send and receive messages by calling one of the programming interfaces. Programming interfaces are provided for various languages, and include the standard JMS programming interface, and classes for the Windows communication baseline. Send and receive IBM WebSphere MQ messages from browsers with the HTTP protocol.

Features of IBM WebSphere MQ

Some of the amazing features of IBM WebSpehere MQ are as follows:

i) MQ gives application designers with a procedure to achieve non-time-dependent architecture. Messages can be sent from one application to another, regardless of whether the applications are running at the same time. If a message receiver application is not working when a sender sends it a message, the queue manager will hold the message until the receiver asks for it. Ordering of all messages is retained, by default this is in FIFO order of receipt at the local queue within precedence of the message. 

ii) It gives a way for transmitting data between different architectures and protocols, such as Big Endian to Little Endian, or EBCDIC to ASCII. This is proficient through the use of message data exits. Exits are compiled applications that run on the queue manager host, and are accomplished by the IBM MQ software at the time data transmission is required. MQ requires to be memorialize that a message in the context of MQ has no ramification other than a collecting of data.

iii) MQ is derived and can be used as a boomed substitute for many forms of intercommunication. MQ channels integrates one queue manager to another over a network. We can develop MQ channels yourself, or a queue manager in a cluster of queue managers develops MQ channels when they are needed.

iv) A system can operates on the same computer as the queue manager, or on a different one. If it operates on the same system, it is a IBM WebSphere MQ server application. If it operates on a different computer, it is a IBM WebSphere MQ client application. Whether it is IBM WebSphere MQ client or server makes no difference to the application. You can develop a client/server application with IBM WebSphere MQ clients or servers.

v) IBM MQ gives guarantee one-time delivery of messages across various platforms. The product prioritises accuracy and clout of message traffic, and provides that a message should never be lost if MQ is appropriately configured.

vi) It artifice the Java Message Service (JMS) standard API, and also has its own bailiwick API, known as the Message Queuing Interface (MQI), which anticipate the JMS several years in continuation. As of version 8.0.0.4, MQ also supports the MQ Light API. Unlike email, MQ itself is authoritive for determining the destination of messages by the definition of queues, so processing of sent messages can be moved to a different application at a different targets. MQ provides a boom routing architecture, permitting messages to be routed via different paths around a network of MQ managers. MQ can be achieve as a cluster, where different MQ operation share the processing of messages to allow greater performance and load balancing.

vii) When your application requires to transmit data to different application, it puts the data into a message. It puts the message onto a queue, or subscribes the message to a topic. Applications communicate with each other by exchanging messages on queues. The main use of IBM WebSphere MQ is to send or exchange messages. One system puts a message on a queue on one computer, and different systems gets the equal message from another queue on a different computer. The queue managers on the different computers work collaborate to transfer the message from the first queue to the second queue. The applications do not connect with each other, the queue managers do. We can have multiple queue manager on one computer. We can have multiple queues and topics on one queue manager.

A Cornerstone in Service Oriented Architecture

IBM MQ is a cornerstone in IBM's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy, subject to the universal messaging backbone across 80 different platform. The growing importance of SOA and the growth of Web Services and other connectivity mechanisms are clearly important developments. Because of the roughly coupled nature of the message queuing model, a large number of existing MQ customers feel that they are already adopting SOA principles. The MQ Service definition support pack MA93 permits MQ applications to be catalogued as software assets that can be reused and composed as Web Services.