WebSphere WebSphere Application Server Express, Version 6.0.x Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Multiple-server bus without clustering

A bus that consists of multiple servers provides advantages of scalability, the ability to handle more client connections and greater message throughput.

You can configure a bus to have multiple server bus members, each of which runs one messaging engine. All the servers in the bus must belong to the same cell.

All of the messaging engines in the bus are implicitly connected, and applications can connect to any messaging engine in the bus. Knowledge of the resources assigned to each messaging engine in a bus is shared between all the messaging engines in the bus.

There is no requirement for all the messaging engines in the bus to be running at the same time; if one of the messaging engines is stopped, the rest of the messaging engines continue to operate. However resources owned by a messaging engine, specifically destinations assigned to that messaging engine, are unavailable if the engine is stopped.

Figure 1. Service integration bus with multiple serversA service integration bus with three members - each appliation server hosting a messaging engine. A bus destination is shown attached  to the bus.
Related tasks
Planning a bus topology
Planning issues common to all topologies
Planning a multiple-server bus without clustering

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