Messaging Connectivity (Magic xpa 3.x)
In distributed applications, two different applications often need to communicate with one another to transfer information. One of the ways to accomplish this is message queuing, which ensures guaranteed delivery.
Message queuing lets applications send messages without waiting for a reply and to continue with other processes. Other applications can receive the messages at their leisure and continue processing according to the data received.
Message queuing is a method by which program instances can exchange data using an interface to a system-managed message queue, which is managed by the operating system. Application programs create message queues, and send and receive messages using an application program interface (API).
There are two main ways to send messages:
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Send / Receive – This is used when there are one or more senders who want to send messages to one receiver. Each message is addressed to a specific queue, and the receiver extracts the message from the queue.
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Publish / Subscribe – This is used when there are multiple senders (publishers) and many receivers (subscribers). The publisher sends messages to a central location, the topic, which sends the messages to anyone who has subscribed to this specific topic.
Both of these methods provide the user with guaranteed message delivery.
Every access to the method queue is done using a set of programs, such as open, close, and send.
Magic xpa provides a message queuing component with interfaces to three standard messaging queue systems: MSMQ (Microsoft), JMS, and WebSphere MQ (IBM).
Magic xpa's Messaging Capability
Setup
Errors
Test Messaging
Messaging chapter in the Mastering Magic xpa guide
