Message Queue Feature Summary

Message Queue has capabilities and features that far exceed the requirements of the JMS specification and JMS API. These features enable Message Queue to integrate systems consisting of large numbers of distributed components exchanging many thousands of messages in round-the-clock, mission-critical operations.

The following enterprise-strength features, which are listed alphabetically in Appendix B, Message Queue Features, can be divided into the quality-of-service categories below:

Integration Support

• Multiple connection services, including HTTP connections and secure connections

• Java EE resource adapters

• SOAP support

• Schema validation of XML messages

• C client support, including support for distributed transactions

• LDAP server support

Security

• Authentication

• Authorization, including JAAS-based authentication

• Secure connections, including encryption

Scalability

• Broker clusters

• Queue delivery to multiple consumers

• Thread management

• Multiple destinations for a publishers or subscriber

Availability

• Broker clusters, including conventional clusters and enhanced clusters

• Connection ping for health checks

• Automatic reconnect

• Connection event notification

Performance

• Tunable performance

• Memory resource management

• Message flow control

• Configurable physical destinations

• Message compression

Serviceability

• Administration tools

• Message-based monitoring API

• JMX-based administration

• Java ES Monitoring Framework support

• Client runtime logging

• Dead message queue

• Broker configurations

• Configurable persistence