IBM MQ JMS Spring Components

This repository contains code to help to provide Spring developers with easy configuration of the IBM MQ JMS package.

The library contains:

mq-jms-spring-boot-starter for Spring Boot applications

HEALTH WARNINGS

This initial release has had limited testing.

The compiled code has not yet been replicated to Maven Central. Once that has happened, it will be available under the 'com.ibm.mq' GroupId. You will have to use your build systems to compile this package as a local dependency for now.

Installation and Usage

If the VERSION file contains "LOCAL" in the version definition, then the gradle build process puts the generated jar into your local directory tree. It can then be referenced from the application build.

Spring Boot Applications

Gradle:

repositories {
   mavenLocal()
   mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile group: 'com.ibm.mq', name: 'mq-jms-spring-boot-starter', version: '0.0.1'
}

Maven:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.ibm.mq</groupId>
  <artifactId>mq-jms-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1</version>
</dependency>

Design Approach

The approach taken here is to follow the model for JMS applications shown in the Spring Getting Started Guide for JMS. That in turn is based on using the JmsTemplate Framework

The same application code from that example ought to work with MQ, with the simple replacement of the messaging provider in its dependency to point at this package, and changing the queue name ("mailbox" in that example) to "DEV.QUEUE.1", which is created automatically in the Docker-packaged MQ server.

Essentially what gets configured from this package is a ConnectionFactory which Spring's JmsTemplate implementation exploits to provide a simpler interface.

Getting Started

To get started quickly, you can use the default configuration settings in this package along with the IBM MQ for Developers container which runs the server processes.

Default Configuration

The default options have been selected to match the MQ Docker container development configuration.

This means that you can run a queue manager using that Docker environment and connect to it. This script will run the container on a Linux system.

docker run --env LICENSE=accept --env MQ_QMGR_NAME=QM1 \ 
           --publish 1414:1414 \
           --publish 9443:9443 \ 
           --detach \
           ibmcom/mq

The default attributes are

mq.queueManager=QM1
mq.channel=DEV.ADMIN.SVRCONN
mq.connName=localhost(1414)
mq.user=admin
mq.password=passw0rd

Extended Configuration Options

If you already have a running MQ queue manager that you want to use, then you can easily modify the default configuration to match by providing override values.

The queue manager name is given as

mq.queueManager

For client connections to a queue manager, you must also set

mq.channel
mq.connName If both the channel and connName are not supplied, then a local queue manager is assumed.

You will probably also need to set

mq.user
mq.password to override the default values. These attributes can be set to an empty value, to use the local OS userid automatically with no authentication (if the queue manager has been set up to allow that).

For example in an application.properties file:

mq.queueManager=QM1
mq.channel=SYSTEM.DEF.SVRCONN
mq.connName=server.example.com(1414)
mq.user=user1
mq.password=passw0rd

Spring Boot will then create a ConnectionFactory that can then be used to interact with your queue manager.

Development

Pull requests

Contributions to this package can be accepted under the terms of the IBM Contributor License Agreement, found in the file CLA.md of this repository.

When submitting a pull request, you must include a statement stating you accept the terms in CLA.md.

Using in Other Projects

The preferred approach for using this package in other projects will be to use the Gradle or Maven dependency as described above.

License

Licensed under the apache license, version 2.0 (the "license"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the license. you may obtain a copy of the license at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the license is distributed on an "as is" basis, without warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied. See the license for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the license.

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