Communicating with C Clients

Message Queue supports C clients as message producers and consumers.

A Java client consuming messages sent by a C client faces only one restriction: a C client cannot be part of a distributed transaction, and therefore a Java client receiving a message from a C client cannot participate in a distributed transaction either.

A Java client producing messages for a consuming C client must be aware of the following differences in the Java and C interfaces because these differences will affect the C client’s ability to consume messages: C clients

• Can only consume messages of type text and bytes

• Cannot consume messages whose body has been compressed

• Cannot participate in distributed transactions

• Cannot receive SOAP messages