I stand altered. <vbg> I brought up the container .. because that is where I have seen it used most.
but I thought I would add... http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wmqv7/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.mq.mqovervw.doc/mq50032_.htm Rob Schramm On Mar 29, 2011 7:10 PM, "Kirk Wolf" <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: > JMS is not a container-related API per se. > > It is a standard Java API (http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=914) that > deals with asynchronous messaging. > > WebSphere MQ (which is completely distinct from WebSphere AS - the > container) has a JMS interface, as do other commercial and free JMS > compliant products. > > With WebSphere MQ, you can either use the JMS API or you can use > WebSphere's proprietary Java API which gives you more functionality and > control (at the cost of portability). > > If you have WebSphere MQ on z/OS, you can use either JMS or the WMQ Java API > from your Java applications and can be accessed from any Java application on > z/OS - including Java running under WebSphere AS, batch, CICS, IMS, etc. > > Even if you don't have a WMQ Server running on z/OS, I believe that you can > use a Java JMS client to connect to a WMQ server (aka "queue manager") on > another box. But I'm not a WMQ expert - it could be that you need to > license a "client" product/feature on z/OS to enable this, so check with > your friendly IBM rep for details. > > Decent references: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WebSphere_MQ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Message_Service > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://dovetail.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
