MQ Connector

The MQ Connector service enables a local application to communicate with a partner application through WebSphere® MQ. It handles communication between the server and the host. The service uses WebSphere MQ for Java (package name com.ibm.mq). The particular WebSphere MQ classes used by the toolkit depend on the type of connection mode that you want to use, client connections mode or bindings mode, as follows:

The main class of the MQ Connector service is MQConnection. Each instance of this class maps to an WebSphere MQ queue manager, an WebSphere MQ send queue, and an WebSphere MQ reply queue. The MQConnection class inherits from Service and implements the MQConnectionService interface, which in turn extends the CommonCommunicationsService interface.

This service, like all communication services, can work in either synchronous or asynchronous mode, which work as follows: