[Info-vax] MQ on Alpha ?

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Dec 10, 3:00 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Hi !
>
> We are investigating using MQ on a couple of Alpha's.
>
> There are a few things that my browsning of the docs
> didn't seemed to answer...
>
> Do I need the Java kit on the Alpha's ?

There are Java based MQ tools, to help monitor and manager.
You'd typically run those on a PC.

There are many ways to use and abuse MQ.
Some use it just as cross platform RPC.
Some applications do not require the guaranteed, persistent messages.
'what is the price of gold right now, and if you don't have an answer
in 2 seconds, then never mind'

For some applications it would seem better to have VMS do what it is
good had (securely manage the business data) and not load it up with
having to run the MQ manager as well. For those client mode my well be
best.

An other input might be that while MQ appears to support OpenVMS
relatively well (using HP resources in India), it may support other
platforms better. The very capable folks in Hursley don't know too
much about the OpenVMS implementation.

fwiw,
Hein.