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WebSphere MQ binding
The WebSphere MQ import binding allows components within your SCA module to communicate with services provided by external WebSphere MQ-based applications.
What is WebSphere MQ
WebSphere MQ is a messaging and queuing middleware that enables programs to communicate across a network of dissimilar components (processors, operating systems, subsystems, and communication protocols), using a simple and consistent application programming interface. Using WebSphere MQ you can perform:
- Messaging: programs communicate by sending each other data in messages rather than by calling each other directly.
- Queuing: the messages are placed on queues in storage. As a result, programs run independently of each other, at different speeds and times, in different locations, and without having a logical connection between them.
- Publish/subscribe: a program sends (publishes) data to a single destination, and WebSphere MQ distributes the data to other programs (subscribers). The publisher defines a topic for the information, and the subscriber specifies what topics it wants to receive.
WebSphere MQ binding
Use the WebSphere MQ import and export bindings to integrate directly with a WebSphere MQ-based system from your server environment. This removes the need to use "MQ Link" or "Client Link" features of the Service Integration Bus.
When a component interacts with a WebSphere MQ service through an import, the WebSphere MQ import binding uses a queue, to which data is sent, and a queue where the reply can be received.
When a SCA module provides a service to WebSphere MQ clients, the WebSphere MQ export binding uses a queue in which the request is received and the response is sent. The function selector provides a mapping to the operation on the target component that is invoked.
Conversion of the payload data to and from a WebSphere MQ message is done through the WebSphere MQ body data handler or data binding. Conversion of the header data to and from a WebSphere MQ message is done through the WebSphere MQ header data binding.
- Configure the WebSphere MQ binding
You can configure the WebSphere MQ binding to customize its behavior.
- Access the WebSphere MQ header
You can access the WebSphere MQ header using Java, or the mediation flow component.
- Use dynamic WebSphere MQ endpoints
You can dynamically invoke services using WebSphere MQ import bindings. The import that you invoke is decided at run time and does not need to be wired directly to a component. During a dynamic invocation, you do not specify the endpoints that you use in the import bindings. If you use a mediation flow component, you can specify a target import and dynamic endpoint address using some mediation primitives.
For example, the Message Element Setter mediation primitive to manipulate the Target section of the SMO.