WebSphere Family

WebSphere MQ

 

Integration Tool

WebSphere MQ provides tools and services for developers to integrate existing applications and Web Services across more then 80 platforms and builds a messaging foundation for Enterprise Service Bus.  WebSphere MQ implements AMQP (advanced message queuing protocol) in a form of point-to-point messaging.

MQ ensures secure communication between the applications and assures delivery of each message. MQ seamlessly integrates with the messaging resources of IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Target Market:

Mid-size companies and large corporations that require the existing applications to exchange data across the enterprise or with partners and clients. Mostly, it is targeted towards developers building workflow applications and e-commerce sites.

MQ Family:

There are 3 editions of WebSphere MQ:

WebSphere MQ V6 – provides messaging services for application connectivity, including message queue management and reliable message delivery. MQ supports JMS and IPv6 standards. It can be used alone or combined with messaging services of WebSphere Application Server.

MQ Extended Security Edition provides advanced security services. It includes benefits of WebSphere MQ V6 plus the extended security services of IBM Tivoli® Access Manager for Business Integration (TAMBI) V5.1.1. Additionally, it includes remote administration of security services and adds protection to each message without a need to modify existing applications.

MQ Express is targeted to end-market and provides application-to-application communication and decouples business logic from the connectivity services through usage of Java Message Services (JMS) or MQ application programming interface. It is easy to use even by developers without experience in application connectivity.

RELATED PRODUCTS:

WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker implements a one-to-many connectivity model across disparate software and platforms and information flow modeling tools.

WebSphere MQ Everyplace™ extends message-based connectivity to mobile devices. MQ Everyplace represents a scaled-down version of MQ for Linux, Win32, Windows CE, Java and Unix and includes APIs both for Java and C. It allows asynchronous messaging from a handheld device with JMS (Java Message Service) approach.

WebSphere MQ Workflow - a business process management system.

WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation - platform for building and deploying Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) and Web Service-based composite applications.

Current Version:

WebSphere MQ, v. 6.0

WebSphere MQ Extended Security Edition, v6

Web Sphere MQ Express V5.3

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Known Issues:

Poor interoperability between multi-vendor integration infrastructure.

Competitors:

WebSphere MQ is recognized as a market leader.

Other mature, established integration vendors:

• TIBCO Rendezvous (publish/subscribe messaging)

• webMethods (B2B integration)

• SonicMQ

Heavyweight competitors:

• BEA MessageQ

• MS Indigo/Biztalk (for small business)

Open Source initiatives:

• JBossMQ

• AMQ (for financial institutions)

• Apache ActiveMQ (message broker)

Lightweight process integration:

• Vitria BusinessWare (has a competitive real-time process monitoring tool)

• Crossworlds (acquired by IBM)

 ESB Software:

• Iona

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