You can connect to WebSphere® MQ in a number of ways. This section shows some of the options.
The following scenarios can be used to communicate with either WebSphere MQ or with WebSphere Message Broker, because WebSphere Message Broker can exchange messages with WebSphere MQ. Therefore, you could connect to WebSphere MQ, and from WebSphere MQ connect to WebSphere Message Broker.
If you want to communicate with native WebSphere MQ applications, you can use MQ bindings. MQ bindings communicate with WebSphere MQ using native MQ messages (the Message Queue Interface MQI).
The MQ
bindings need data bindings, and there are a number of
MQ data bindings supplied. For more information,
see:
If you want to communicate with Java™ Message Service (JMS) applications deployed to WebSphere MQ, (applications using WebSphere MQ as the JMS provider), you can use MQ JMS bindings. MQ JMS bindings let you communicate with WebSphere MQ using JMS messages (the JMS API).
The MQ JMS bindings need data
bindings, and there are a number of MQ JMS data bindings supplied. For more information, see: