Accessing (Receive) from IBM MQ 8 with JMS running on TomEE 1.7.4 plus

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Latest Tutorials provided by IBM for simple PRODUCE and CONSUME to IBM MQ 8/9 are pretty easy to implement.

Currently we have to figure out, how to read/receive Messages from one IBM MQ 8 Manager Queue out of an existing application.

Following setup:

  • IBM MQ 8
  • Applicationserver with Application running, which needs to access the MQ: TomEE 1.7.4 plus
  • No WebSphere
  • No JNDI

My expectation here is, that this will not work:

  • IBM MQ 8 needs JMS 2.0 features to connect
  • which needs Java EE 7
  • while TomEE 1.7.4 plus is Java EE 6 compatible (TomEE 7.x would be Java EE 7 compatible)

I would appreciate any help especially pointing me to an IBM MQ JMS implementation deployable to TomEE 1.7.x, using straight forward parameters for host, Q-Manager, Channel, Queue, User without JNDI.

Update#1: One good tutorial to create a simple consumer or producer for IBM MQ (working with 8 and 9) https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/learn-mq/mq-tutorials/develop-mq-jms/

Update#2: As expected, integrating this with TomEE 7.x seems to work fine. Unfortunately migrating the whole infrastructure and application dependencies is not an option to resolve it this way...

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The last version of mq compatible with java 6 was 7.5 which is out of support. – JoshMc
I guess you are asking for compatibility with the JMS Client and TomEE 1.7.4, and not MQ Sever and TomEE 1.7.4. Which Tutorials did you use for your simple PRODUCE and CONSUME samples? By the way you have described them they do seem to be a valuable resource. – chughts
@chughts I added the link with update#1 – PdM
The MQ 8 server does not care what version the MQ Client (aka network attached applications) are. Using a V7.5 client to connect to a V8 queue manager is perfectly good combination. Josh is right that V7.5 is out of support, but only just (April 2018), so you could purchase a support extension from IBM as an alternative to migrating to TomEE 7.x – Morag Hughson
@MoragHughson asking a customer who is using TomEE instead of e.g. WebSphere to pay more to IBM just to not migrate now seems stupid We now use IBM MQ classes for Java instead of JMS. It works. – PdM

2 Answers

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You've kind of answered your own question in brackets, if you go up to TomEE 7.x which works with Java EE 7, you'll be good to go.

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Since the requested combination is not possible, we skipped JMS integration and are using IBM MQ classes for Java. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_9.0.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q118320_.htm

JMS solution is prepared and can be integrated as soon as TomEEs are migrated to 7.x.