2.4. MQSeries programming interfaces

We now move on to give a brief overview of the key features of the many programming choices that an MQSeries application programmer can select from. Each one of these choices are described in much more detail in subsequent chapters.

2.4.1. MQI

The MQSeries Message Queue Interface (MQI) is an extremely rich programming interface that gives the programmer access to all the facilities of the MQSeries messaging platform along with detailed control over the messages and the way they behave.

The MQI calls allow you to:

  • Connect programs to, and disconnect programs from, a queue manager

  • Open and close objects such as queues, queue managers, namelists, and processes

  • Put messages on queues

  • Get (remove) messages from ...

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