When you design your broker domain, consider the WebSphere® MQ resources that you need to support the components in your domain configuration, and the applications that connect to the brokers to supply or receive messages.
The WebSphere Event Broker runtime components use WebSphere MQ to exchange internally-generated messages that provide information, status, and instructions that concern the operation of those components. Connections are also required by each workbench with each Configuration Manager with which it want to communicate.
Some of these resources that are required are created for you when you create the components that depend on them. Others depend on the configuration of your broker domain; you must create these resources yourself. The requirements associated with each type of component are described in the following topics:
Your applications exchange messages and other data by communicating with message flows that are running in the broker. You can choose to connect your applications to the broker with any one of the supported communications methods. If your applications are written to use WebSphere MQ, the requirement for the channels or client connections are determined by the types of nodes that you include in your message flows. These resources are application specific, and you must create these resources yourself.
The following nodes might require WebSphere MQ resources:
For more information about creating resources, see the Intercommunication section of the WebSphere MQ Version 6 information center online or the WebSphere MQ Version 5.3 book on the WebSphere MQ library Web page.