Messaging code without MDB

[Yan Lee]

Hi all,
I am working on a web based application I need to write code to consume off a queue. But we do NOT want to use any EJB's. MQSeries is the messaging product.

I have the following questions
[1] What are my options to write the message consumer without using EJB's?

[2] Has anyone used the Apache Commons messenger API?
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/messenger/
If so what is the review for the product?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Stan James]

You can use JMS APIs without EJB/MDB, or you can write straight to the MQ-Series client APIs. Code written to JMS should survive a change to another messaging product, while code written to MQ-Series would not. I use a vendor framework that generates MQ-Series client code from Rose models. It's pretty slick.

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Originally posted by code poet:
[2] Has anyone used the Apache Commons messenger API?
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/messenger/
If so what is the review for the product?

I have used it. I think that it is not ready for production yet. We ran into unsolvable problems and ended up replacing all of that code.