Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation uses message queues extensively. Message queue usage in Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation can be characterized as:
These queues can be implemented in:
Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation agent and integration servers use messaging primarily for two reasons:
The failover and load balancing capabilities of JMS clustering provide high availability for message queues. IBM supports different JMS cluster implementations, depending on the application server and whether the JMS cluster is used for integration services or agents. For more information about JMS clustering, refer to High availability using JMS clustering.