Alternatives to MQ

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Guys,
I want to know if there are any alternatives to MQseries. I want to save all the overhead with admin/setup connected with MQ. The requirement is communication between a web application in WAS and AS/400 app. All you need is send a string and get the results. Can this be done using a custom peer to peer Java program? I dont want want to use any new tools like tibco etc.

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If you do not required garanteed delivery, then a simple SOAP web service could do the job

/ JeanLouis "software development has been, is, and will remain fundamentally hard" (Grady Booch) Take a look at <a href="http://www.epfwiki.net/wikis/openup/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Agile OpenUP</a> in the Eclipse community

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Or you could try this approach:

- use DataQueues on the AS/400 as the messaging mechanism
eg.

Servlet (bean or whatever) in the Application Server adds a request to a "request" DataQueue, and waits for an answer on the "response" DataQueue, the AS/400 program does the opposite (reads request, writes response).

These classes should help you with what you need:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/index.htm?info/rzahh/pgmc.htm