Preface

Contents of Your MessageQ Kit

In addition to your MessageQ license certificate, your MessageQ media and documentation kit contains:


Item	Description	Format
Read me first letter	Late-breaking news about this release and instructions for printing product release notes	Hardcopy
Media	The distribution media appropriate for your system.	CD-ROM
User documentation	Introduction to Message Queuing Installation and Configuration Guide Programmer's Guide Client for UNIX User's Guide Release notes	Online and hardcopy Online and hardcopy Online and hardcopy Online and hardcopy Online

How to Use the Documentation

The MessageQ documentation kit contains the following user documentation:

Introduction to Message Queuing-an overview of MessageQ features. This book is presented as online documentation and can be displayed using an online document viewer. Read this book first to learn about MessageQ software before installing and using it.
Installation and Configuration Guide-step-by-step instructions to install MessageQ software and configure your MessageQ environment. This guide is specific to the operating system environment in which you use MessageQ.
Programmer's Guide-a detailed description about using the MessageQ application programming interface to build and integrate distributed applications. This book is presented as online documentation and can be displayed using an online document viewer.
Client User's Guide-instructions to configure and use the MessageQ Client to run MessageQ applications. The MessageQ Client provides applications with the full support of MessageQ features, while using significantly fewer resources than a full message server.

Based on your role in the development and deployment of distributed applications using MessageQ, the following chart shows the recommended reading to learn and understand MessageQ quickly:


Audience	Introduction to Message Queuing	Installation and Configuration Guide	Programmer's Guide	Client Guide
Technical Managers	X
System Managers	X	X		X
Application Developers	X	X	X	X

How to Get Technical Support

If you have a question you cannot answer using the manual or the online documentation, you can contact BEA Technical Support using any of the following methods:

In the USA, telephone BEA Technical Support at 888.BEA.SUPT (888.232.7878) between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Extended Support customers may call anytime
Fax your questions to BEA Technical Support at 408.743.4071
Send electronic mail to BEA Support at support@beasys.com

When contacting BEA Technical Support, please be sure to have your e-mail address, company name, company address, machine type and authorization codes available. It is also helpful to write down any pertinent errors messages that can assist our BEA support team in diagnosing your problem faster.

We Want to Hear from You

If you have questions or comments about MessageQ software or documentation, you can send them to us using our Internet electronic mail address:

messageq@beasys.com

You can also write to us at:

MessageQ Engineering
BEA Systems, Inc.
500 Enterprise Drive
Rocky Hill, CT 06067

If you have questions about purchasing additional BEA products or services, please call 1-800-817-4BEA in the U.S. or +1-408-743-4000.

Or, you can visit our World Wide Web home page at:

http://www.beasys.com/

Conventions Used in this Guide


Convention	Description
boldface type	Boldface type is used to distinguish routine call arguments, command parameters, menu names, and menu items when they are described in the text. New terms, also shown in boldface type, are defined in the glossary in the Introduction to Message Queuing.
system output	This typeface indicates system output or the exact name of a command, option, partition, pathname, directory, or file.
italic type	Italic type emphasizes important information, indicates variables, and indicates complete titles of books.
UPPERCASE	Words in uppercase indicate a command, the name of a file, the name of a file protection code, or an abbreviation for a system privilege.
lowercase	In format descriptions, words in lowercase indicate parameters or arguments to be specified by the user.
n	A lowercase italic n indicates the generic use of a number. For example, 19nn indicates a four-digit number in which the last two digits are unknown.
[ ]	In format descriptions, brackets indicate optional elements. However, brackets are not optional in the syntax of an OpenVMS directory name or file specification.
. . .	The vertical ellipsis indicates the omission of information from an example or command syntax.
#	Indicates the default superuser prompt.
Return	Press the key labeled Return on the keyboard.
Enter	Type the information that follows and press the Return key.