Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Administer applications and their environment > Administer Messaging resources > Manage messaging with the default messaging provider > Interoperating with a WebSphere MQ network
Use WebSphere MQ links to connect a bus to a WebSphere MQ network
If you operate within a WAS environment, sending messages across a service integration bus, you can also exchange point-to-point and publish/subscribe messages with applications in a WebSphere MQ network.
To do this, you configure a foreign bus connection that links to a WebSphere MQ network through a WebSphere MQ link.
Decide which method to use to configure these resources. We can configure a WebSphere MQ link by as described in this task, or you can configure a WebSphere MQ link by using wsadmin.
A WebSphere MQ link provides a server to server channel connection between a service integration bus and a WebSphere MQ queue manager or queue-sharing group, which acts as the gateway to the WebSphere MQ network. The link operates on a messaging engine in a service integration bus to provide functions that simplify and automate interoperation with WebSphere MQ.
Use the WebSphere MQ link panels of the WAS administration console, you can choose:
- The WebSphere MQ queue manager or queue-sharing group in the WebSphere MQ network through which your messages will flow
- Whether to enable WAS applications to publish and subscribe to a message broker in the WebSphere MQ network
Procedure
- Learn about interoperating with a WebSphere MQ network.
- Create a new WebSphere MQ link.
- Administer an existing WebSphere MQ link.
- Create applications that can interoperate with WebSphere MQ.