httpbridge

[tic]

Hiya,

We have a customer who has implemented a MQ_httpbridge. Effectively we need to access it via REST (i.e. a periodic GET on the URL followed by a DELETE if we have a succesful retreival of the message).

We also need to return data via a POST.

Does ESB support this method of getting data into ESB ? I'm inclined to think it doesn;t but I'm not clear and am very, very new to ESB.

[tcunning]

Not really - I'm sure you could put something together which does, but it makes no sense to do so.    The point of the MQ_httpbridge is to be able to serve lightweight clients like AJAX web apps that can't support an MQ client.        ESB does support that, so there's really no benefit in trying to make this work over using a jms-provider.

The Administration Guide contains a lot of info on how to setup a standard Websphere MQ provider :

http://docs.jboss.org/jbossesb/docs/4.10/manuals/html/Administration_Guide/index.html#websphere_mq_series

[tic]

Thanks for the response Tom, I agree in the context that it makes no sense to do so - but unfortunately we have been told that this is how we will do so.  Its us small fry vs. a major retailer.

We will probably do some scripting with Curl to GET/DELETE the message.

[tcunning]

Take a look at the HttpRouter Action - that may help and avoid having to work with Curl.