8 Developing Web Services Using CICS, WMQ, and WMB
1.4.1 WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
WebSphere MQ (WMQ or MQ) is data transportation middleware, and has
become the messaging standard for most business sectors. It assures once only
delivery of messages (data records) on 30+ operating systems, using a
consistent API for a wide range of supported programming languages. The
language support ranges from z/OS Assembler to .NET to JMS. WMQ is
available on z/OS and 30+ distributed platforms. On most distributed platforms
there are two offerings—a freely downloadable client and a server (queue
manager). WMQ is an asynchronous transport model, though many applications
use it in a synchronous fashion.
WMQ supports the most popular network communication protocols ...