What is AQ?

Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ) provides database integrated message queuing functionality. AQ :

• Enables and manages asynchronous communication of two or more applications using messages.

• Supports point-to-point and publish/subscribe communication models.

Integration of message queuing with Oracle8i database brings the integrity, reliability, recoverability, scalability, performance, and security features of Oracle8i to message queuing. Integration with Oracle8i also facilitates the extraction of intelligence from message flows.