Clients and servers

WebSphere MQ supports client-server configurations for WebSphere MQ applications.

A WebSphere MQ client is a part of the WebSphere MQ product that is installed on a machine to accept MQI calls from applications and pass them to an MQI server machine. There they are processed by a queue manager. Typically, the client and server reside on different machines but they can also exist on the same machine.

Note:
WebSphere MQ for iSeries acts as a Java client only.

An MQI server is a queue manager that provides queuing services to one or more clients. All the WebSphere MQ objects, for example queues, exist only on the queue manager machine, that is, on the MQI server machine. A server can support normal local WebSphere MQ applications as well.

For more information about creating channels for clients and servers, see WebSphere MQ Intercommunication.

For information about client support in general, see WebSphere MQ Clients.