WebSphere MQ V6 Fundamentals.

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Summary of changes -- November 2005 -- Chapter 1. Overview -- Chapter 2. Concepts of message queuing -- 2.1 Core concepts -- 2.1.1 Middleware -- 2.1.2 Messages -- 2.1.3 Queues -- 2.1.4 Point-to-point messaging -- 2.1.5 Publish/subscribe messaging -- 2.2 Simplification -- 2.2.1 Development focuses on business logic -- 2.2.2 Application maintenance and portability -- 2.3 Scalability and performance -- 2.4 Reliability and data integrity -- 2.4.1 Exactly once delivery -- 2.4.2 Units of work -- 2.4.3 Failure handling -- 2.4.4 Quality assurance (QA) environments -- 2.5 Security -- 2.5.1 Security of access -- 2.5.2 Security of communications -- 2.6 High availability -- 2.6.1 Service availability -- 2.6.2 Message availability -- 2.6.3 Disaster recovery -- 2.7 Monitoring and accounting -- 2.7.1 Performance monitoring -- 2.7.2 Accounting -- Chapter 3. Facilities for message queuing provided by WebSphere MQ -- 3.1 Core concepts -- 3.1.1 WebSphere MQ message queuing infrastructure -- 3.1.2 Facilities for building a WebSphere MQ infrastructure -- 3.1.3 SupportPacs -- 3.2 Simplification -- 3.2.1 Applications accessing a WebSphere MQ infrastructure -- 3.2.2 Asynchronous intercommunication using WebSphere MQ -- 3.2.3 Generalizing destinations using WebSphere MQ -- 3.2.4 Specific destinations using WebSphere MQ -- 3.2.5 Providing services within a WebSphere MQ infrastructure -- 3.2.6 WebSphere MQ queues as an interface for accessing services -- 3.2.7 Standardized application programming interfaces (APIs) -- 3.2.8 WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server -- 3.2.9 Web services as an interface for accessing services -- 3.2.10 Simplification of failure handling with WebSphere MQ -- 3.3 Scalability and performance.