Advanced Messaging Applications with MSMQ and MQSeries [Paperback]

Level8 (Author), Rhys Lewis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 17, 1999 | Series: Professional

Advanced MSMQ Programming focuses on the internal programming procedures and concepts associated with Microsoft's Message Queuing Server. Experienced NT/Windows developers and C programmers receive an in depth look at the MSMQ architecture, programming techniques, securing techniques, and configuring techniques. Learn how to solve interoperability and programming issues associated with the MSMQ and IBM's message queuing middleware, MQSeries and the Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS).

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Systems integrators need ways to handle messages as they flow among elements of a system. Smooth message handling is vital to enterprise application integration. IBM's MQSeries product has emerged as the dominant force in mainframe message queuing. Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ) line is gaining strength on Windows computers. Advanced Messaging Applications with MSMQ and MQSeries shows how to put the two to use.

Rhys Lewis's consultant nature shows through in this book. His organization strategy is to present problems that need to be solved and then proceed to solve them in various ways. It's a practical approach, and Lewis is careful to choose problems that systems integrators are likely to encounter on the job. He first creates a straight client/server system that uses message queuing directory lookups and then moves on to adorn the basic system with additional features (including asynchronous update capability and automatic server starting). Lewis presents the problems clearly and lists C programs that solve them. He then comments on the software to clarify what's going on. He is careful to solve problems with both messaging packages (MSMQ and MQSeries) and does a good job of separating the architecture of his solutions from their implementation. A handy reference to the MSMQ and MQSeries APIs wraps up this volume. --David Wall

Topics covered: The MSMQ and IBM MQSeries lines of message-queuing software for applications integrators in regard to typical enterprise application integration requirements. Using C code, message-based database queries, asynchronous database updates, transactions and threading, and error handling are explained.

From the Back Cover

Advanced MSMQ Programming focuses on the internal programming procedures and concepts associated with Microsoft's Message Queuing Server. Experienced NT/Windows developers and C programmers receive an in depth look at the MSMQ architecture, programming techniques, securing techniques, and configuring techniques. Learn how to solve interoperability and programming issues associated with the MSMQ and IBM's message queuing middleware, MQSeries and the Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS).

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1st edition (December 17, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078972023X
• ISBN-13: 978-0789720238
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,344,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, overall coverage, April 28, 2000

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P. Coleman (Toronto) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Messaging Applications with MSMQ and MQSeries (Paperback)

This book is relative if you are using MSMQ or MQSeries. There is also a chapter regarding using both of these messaging products together. This book will get you 'up and running'. The concepts of messaging are nicely explained

As the book was published in Dec 1999 I would have expected more coverage of MSMQ 2.0 and code samples in Java or C++. The author uses C for the examples! This actually makes the code samples more complex - such as the use of static local variables rather than private members.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Should be titled: Beginning Messaging Applications with ...., May 11, 2000

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Roland Barcia (North Bergen, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Messaging Applications with MSMQ and MQSeries (Paperback)

This book is a nice introduction to MQ-Series, however, is no way advanced. It just touches the basic concepts but goes either very little or nothing into channels, clusters, distribution lists, threading, transactions, and so-forth. I skipped the chapters on MSMQ, so i can't say much about that section.