Enabling WebSphere MQ Everyplace applications

WebSphere MQ Mobile Transport is a service that connects mobile and wireless applications that use WebSphere MQ Everyplace.

WebSphere MQ Everyplace is an application designed primarily for messaging to, from, and between pervasive devices. These are typically small, handheld devices, such as mobile phones and PDAs.

The operation of WebSphere MQ Everyplace is different from that of WebSphere Message Broker, which means that there are different concepts involved in using a broker to operate with WebSphere MQ Everyplace. In particular, the message format is different, and messages must be converted.

Communication between WebSphere MQ Everyplace and a broker is achieved through the use of an external MQe Gateway (also called a bridge-queue-manager). WebSphere MQ Everyplace must be installed separately, and its MQe Gateway configured appropriately. Your flows use MQInput and MQOutput nodes to communicate with the gateway using MQ format messages. The gateway then communicates with MQe devices using MQe format messages.

The following diagram illustrates this visually:

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For help with configuring WebSphere MQ Everyplace, see the documentation supplied with that product.

If you have message flows containing MQe nodes from a previous version broker and you want to use them, see how to migrate them in Migrating a message flow that contains WebSphere MQ Everyplace nodes.

Related concepts
WebSphere MQ Mobile Transport
Message flows overview
Related tasks
Developing message flows
Deploying
Related reference
Migrating a message flow that contains WebSphere MQ Everyplace nodes
WebSphere MQ Mobile Transport
Built-in nodes