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WebSphere Message Broker introduction

You can use IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker to connect applications together, regardless of the message formats or protocols that they support.

This connectivity means that your diverse applications can interact and exchange data with other applications in a flexible, dynamic, and extensible infrastructure. WebSphere Message Broker routes, transforms, and enriches messages from one location to any other location:

Your interactions with WebSphere Message Broker can be considered in two broad categories:

Application development

Your message processing applications, which you can run on more than 30 industry platforms, can connect to the broker by using one of the supported protocols already listed. Platforms from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and others are supported.

Diverse applications can exchange information in widely differing formats, with brokers handling the processing required for the information to arrive in the right place in the correct format, according to the rules that you have defined. The applications need only to understand their own formats and protocols, and not standards used by the applications to which they are connected.

Applications also have much greater flexibility in selecting which messages they want to receive, because you can apply filters to control the messages that are made available to them.

WebSphere Message Broker provides a framework that contains a wide variety of supplied, basic, functions along with user-defined enhancements, to enable rapid construction and modification of message processing rules.

Your applications can be integrated by providing message and data transformations in a single place, the broker. This integration helps to reduce the cost of application upgrades and modifications. You can extend your systems to reach your suppliers and customers, by meeting their interface requirements within your brokers. This ability can help you to improve the quality of your interactions, and allow you to respond more quickly to changing or additional requirements.

Messages are manipulated according to the rules that you define by using the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit.

Operational management

WebSphere Message Broker supports a choice of interfaces for operation and administration of your brokers:

  • The WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit
  • The WebSphere Message Broker Explorer is a graphical user interface, based on the WebSphere MQ Explorer, for administering your brokers
  • Applications that use the Message Broker API (also known as the CMP API)
  • A comprehensive set of commands, that you can run interactively or by using scripts
  • The Representational State Transfer API (REST) allows development of administrative applications without the need to install client software and web browsers can administer brokers through a user interface.

WebSphere Message Broker builds on the WebSphere MQ product, which provides assured, once-only delivery of messages between the applications. WebSphere MQ is included when you purchase WebSphere Message Broker.

WebSphere Message Broker is complemented by a wide variety of other IBM products such as Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for SOA, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), WebSphere Process Server, and WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX).

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