How to use this book

This book contains guidance information to help you to design an application, and procedural information to help you to write an application.

The book is divided into five parts:

Designing applications that use WebSphere MQ
Introduces the message queuing style of application design, describes WebSphere(R) MQ messages and queues, and shows how to design a message queuing application.
Writing a WebSphere MQ application
Describes how to use the IBM(R) Message Queue Interface (MQI) to write the programs that comprise a message queuing application. The chapters guide you through the coding of each MQI call, showing you what information to supply as input and what returns to expect. These chapters first describe simple uses of the MQI calls, then go on to describe how to use all the features of each call.

Read Designing applications that use WebSphere MQ to understand the concepts involved when designing WebSphere MQ applications. The second part is self-contained: use an individual chapter when you are performing the task described in it.

Building a WebSphere MQ application
Explains how to build your WebSphere MQ application on each platform.
Sample WebSphere MQ programs
Lists and explains how the sample programs work, for all platforms.
The appendixes
Contain examples of how to use the MQI calls in each of the programming languages supported by WebSphere MQ.