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How WebSphere MQ Publish/Subscribe relates to WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker and WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker
WebSphere MQ messaging works with...
- WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker
- WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker
...extending its basic connectivity and transport capabilities to provide a message broker solution driven by business rules. Messages are formed, routed, and transformed according to the rules defined by a graphical user interface.
Diverse applications can exchange information in unlike forms, with brokers handling the processing required for the information to arrive in the right place in the correct format, according to the rules you have defined. The applications have no need to know anything other than their own conventions and requirements.
Applications also have flexibility in selecting which messages they want to receive, because they can specify a topic filter, or a content-based filter, or both, to control the messages made available to them.
WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker and WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker provide a framework that supports supplied, basic, functions along with plug-in enhancements, to enable rapid construction and modification of business processing rules that are applied to messages in the system.
WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker and WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker...
- Route a message to several destinations, using rules that act on the contents of one or more of the fields in the message or message header.
- Transform a message, so that applications using different formats can exchange messages in their own formats.
- Store and retrieve a message, or part of a message, in a database.
- Modify the contents of a message (for example, by adding data extracted from a database).
- Publish a message to make it available to other applications. Other applications can choose to receive publications that relate to specific topics, or that have specific content, or both.
- Create structured topic names, topic-based access control functions, content-based subscriptions, and subscription points.
- Exploit a plug-in interface to develop message processing node types that can be incorporated into the broker framework to complement or replace the supplied nodes, or to incorporate node types developed by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).
- Enable instrumentation by products such as those developed by Tivoli, using system management hooks.
The benefits of WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker and WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker can be realized both within and beyond your enterprise:
- Your processes and applications can be integrated by providing message and data transformations in a single place, the broker. This helps reduce costs of application upgrades and modifications.
- We can extend your systems to reach your suppliers and customers, by meeting their interface requirements within your brokers. This can help you improve the quality of your interactions and allow you to respond more quickly to changing or additional requirements.
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