IBM WebSphere Message Broker
WebSphere Message Broker is IBM's information broker from the WebSphere product family that allows business data and information in the form of MQ messages to flow between disparate applications across multiple hardware and software platforms. Business rules can be applied to the data flowing through the message broker to route and transform the information. The product can be considered to be an Enterprise Service Bus providing connectivity between disparate applications.
History
Originally the product was developed by a company named 'NEON Systems'. IBM acquired the product from this company during the late nineties and branded it 'MQSeries Integrator' or 'mqsi' for short. Versions of mqsi ran up to 2.1. The product was added to the Websphere family and rebranded 'Websphere MQ Integrator', still version 2.1. From 2.1 the version numbers are synchronized with the rest of the Websphere family and jumped to version 5.0. The name changed to 'Websphere Business Integration Message Broker'. In this version the development environment was redesigned using Eclipse and support for Webservices was integrated into the product. The current major version 6 is branded as 'Websphere Message Broker'.
Components
WebSphere Message Broker consists of four components:
- Broker
- Configuration Manager
- User Name Server
- Message Brokers Toolkit
Supported platforms
Operating systems
- Further information: Comparison of business integration software#Operating system support
Currently available platforms for WebSphere Message Brokers 6.0 are:
- AIX
- HP-UX (PA-RISC and IA64)
- Solaris (SPARC and x86-64)
- Linux (x86, PPC and 390)
- Microsoft Windows
- z/OS
Trivia
- The Configuration Manager repository named "BERNARD" after the Configuration Manager development team’s pet gargoyle.[1]
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