How to create temporary queue and access it in JMS 2 - java

I am working on a JMS client server app where client first send some data to server through a common queue for all clients and server gives respond to it in a temporary queue created by client itself.
I googled it but could not find how can I implement it in JMS 2 as the traditional approach of creating temporary queue is by using session but in JMS 2 I am using JMSContext through which I am creating producer and consumer.
My question is how and where

In the JMS 2.0 JMSContext API the createTemporaryQueue and createTemporaryTopic server the same role as the traditional versions did in the JMS 1.1 Session style. The JMSContext is really just wrapping the ideas of Connection and Session into one object.
You also have all the same methods create creating messages and setting JMSReplyTo on them, in the consumer you need to consume a Message instance and then use the getJMSReplyTo to get at the reply queue

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How to Listen to Rabbit MQ queues with different names in java spring?

I have a chat app that will create a queue for each user that is online and I'm trying to get all the queued messages for this user and the problem is that I only know the name of the queue through the message that comes through and therefore I cant use #RabbitListener to give it a queue name.
Is there any way that I can get all the message queued for a user other than using rabbitTemplate
convert ? since it only gives me one single message other than all of them
I would say it is better to look into a STOMP over WebSocket protocol which is supported as a plugin on RabbitMQ. It indeed creates an individual queue for every user and there is a mechanism to consume all the messages sent to that user.
See WebSocket support in Spring Framework: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/web.html#websocket
If you can't do that, you probably should look into a custom solution where you send a queue name to some static exchange for the consumer to be aware of such a new queue which you can add to the ListenerContainer at runtime (and remove respectively later). See more info in Spring AMQP: https://docs.spring.io/spring-amqp/docs/current/reference/html/#listener-queues

JMS and MQ (without JNDI)

Created a webpage where a user can paste their XML file and after clicking the submit option, the XML file will go to other system ( which is test environment). That system is basically running on IBM (MQ) and I have to use JMS for it. I have QUEUE, Port, host name. Does anyone has any similar example which I can use as direction?
Basically, this is what you will need to do:
Accept the XML mesaage from UI.
Create a MQ Connection factory with details of your port,host and queue.
Create a JMS connection from MQ Connection Factory.
Create a JMS session off the JMS connection.
Create a JMS message Producer off the JMS session.
Create a JMS TextMessage containing the XML file.
Send the message to the JMS queue via the producer.
Will try to add a code example in a while, in the meantime for each step you will be able to find multiple examples online.
Dont forget to close the JMS message producer, jms session and jms connection in the finally block as they are resources.

how does jms interact with the underlying database?

I understand JMS as depicted by the following diagram:
(source: techhive.com)
Is there any way for me to access the underlying database using JMS or some other thing? Further, the JDBC connections that the JMS server maintains, can I add new connections in it so as to access other databases also and do CRUD operations on them? If yes, how?
Where did you get this from?
Normally JMS is used to send messages to queue (or topics). You have message producers that push messages in the queue and message consumers consume them and process it.
In your exemple it seems that you have multiple queues. One for the messages that need to be processed, and one for each client to retrieve the result the processing of its messages.
With JMS Server you don't necessarily have a database behind. Everything can stay in memory, or can be written to files. You will need database server behind only if you configure your JMS server to be persistent (and to assure that even if server/application crash your messages won't be lost). But in that case you will never have to interact with the database. Only the JMS server will and you will interact with the JMS server sending and consuming messages.

How to design an MQ Server?

I'm unclear as to whether there should be a 1-1 or a 1-* relationship between:
Server-Connection Channel and JMS Topic
Server-Connection Channel and Listener
Listener and Topic
Regards the design of our application layer, there is a single MDB that in response to a message, does some work, then publishes messages onto a variety of output topics. The service layer is listening on these output topics.
Currently I have a 1-1-1 between Channel-Listener-Topic, and therefore an instance of JmsConnectionFactory for each publisher (on the app side) and listener (on the service side).
There are a couple of different ways to look at this. From the point of view of your application one connection factory can have many sessions. Each session may have many consumers but units of work are scoped per session, not per consumer. So more than likely you want one connection factory with multiple sessions where each session has a listener on a particular topic. If you have a listener assigned to multiple consumers on a single session, any acknowledge (or COMMIT in a transacted session) commits all messages got or put in that session.
From the WMQ server's point of view, one channel definition can have many running instances. So you only need the one SVRCONN channel defined per app, regardless of how many channel instances it needs to start. Try not to put different apps on the same SVRCONN though because you often want to administer or authorize the apps separately. For example, with apps on separate channels you could easily figure out which app was misbehaving if you suddenly found yourself with 3000 running channels.
For purposes of administration and debugging, I'd probably have one CF for the app side and one CF for the service side. Each would point to a different SVRCONN channel as described above. Inside the app server I'd stick with one topic per session unless it is valid for your app to consume off multiple topics in a single unit of work. In the subscription you can specify a wildcard topic to get all topics below a certain point in the topic tree with a single subscriber.
Just for best practices, I'd also set the CF to use FAILIFQUIESCE to make sure the QMgr can be stopped in an orderly fashion and I'd use SYNCPOINTALLGETS (or a transacted session with explicit commit calls) in order to improve reliability as per the JMS 1.1 spec, sestion 4.4.13 which states:
If a failure occurs between the time a client commits its work on a Session and the commit method returns, the client cannot determine if the transaction was committed or rolled back. The same ambiguity exists when a failure occurs between the non-transactional send of a PERSISTENT message and the return from the sending method. It is up to a JMS application to deal with this ambiguity. In some cases, this may cause a client to produce functionally duplicate messages.
A message that is redelivered due to session recovery is not considered a duplicate message.
The SYNCPOINTALLGETS (a.k.a. SPAG) insures that messages retrieved from the queue are delivered to your app before being committed and permanently removed from the queue. Otherwise if you lose your connection while the QMgr is trying to return a message, it's gone for good. With SPAG set you might see the same message twice as described in the JMS spec, but you'll never drop one.
For more details of the options available to the CF, queue and topic objects, see: Properties of objects in the WebSphere MQ Using Java manual.
WMQ v6.0 is end-of-life as of September 2012 so please be sure to develop using the v7 clients, even if the server is at v6. This will reduce your migration effort next year. Download v7 client here and the WMQ v7.1 client here.
An MDB in a container creates a pool of MDBs that concurrently process messages. If you simply process and write to the topic you will be fine. With this in mind you do not have a 1-1-1 relationship.
In your MDB just do a JNDI lookup of your TopicConnectionFactory and your Topic and then just write. Look here: http://middleware.its.state.nc.us/middleware/Documentation/en_US/htm/csqzaw09/csqzaw0931.htm

Request-reply model for hybrid SOAP over HTTP/JMS over middleware

One of our products implements the following one-way web service structure:
Server <--------------------- Middleware <---------------- Client
SOAP over JMS (queue) SOAP over HTTP
In this model, clients send SOAP messages over HTTP to our middleware (Progress SonicMQ). The messages get pushed into JMS queues by SonicMQ and our server fetches them from there. However, as you can see, the server does not send a response to the client (asynchronous JMS).
We would like to implement a response-channel to this model. The often suggested solution is to create a temporary replyTo-queue (on the fly) in the middleware, allowing server to send a response to that queue. Then, client can fetch the response and the replyTo-queue is closed. This sounds convenient enough, but unfortunately our clients operate over plain HTTP and not over JMS, so their clients can not easily set up replyTo queues.
One approach to achieving a response channel in such hybrid HTTP/JMS SOAP model would be to configure the middleware to open the replyTo queue on each succesful SOAP receive, append the replyTo-queue and sender information to the SOAP message and push the message to the queue, where it would be fetched by the server. After receiving and processing the message, the server could send a response to the indicated replyTo-queue in the middleware. Finally, the middleware would send the response (SOAP) over HTTP back to the original client by using the data from the SOAP message (the data that was inserted there in the middleware procedures when the request was first received).
While propably possible, this sounds kind of a hacky. So the question is: any cleaner ways of achieving such request/response model on our case? The server end has been implemented in Java.
The solution:
Progress SonicMQ supports "Content Reply Send" HTTP Acceptor, which allows to easily send JMS reply. The Content Reply Send acceptor works in a following way:
Acceptor receives the HTTP message a client sent
Acceptor creates a temporary JMS queue
Acceptor builds up a JMS message, containing the HTTP body, and adds the temporary queue's identification to the newly created JMS message
Acceptor pushes the JMS message into its destination queue (not the temporary queue)
Acceptor starts consuming the temporary reply-To queue
When client fetches message from original destination queue, it contains the set reply-To queue identification
Client consumes message
Client sends reply to the reply-To queue
Acceptor receives message from the queue
Acceptor sends message as HTTP to the client that originally sent the HTTP message
Should consumer ("server" in our case) fail and not send reply causing timeout, Sonic's HTTP Acceptor sends an HTTP message to the client indicating the timeout. This is a very standard feature in SonicMQ. I suppose it exists in other products as well.
This allows using standard SOAP over JMS (see skaffman's answer) in the "server" end avoids any custom programming in the middleware.
I still see some problems in the JMS model though, but this is definitely an improvement.
Update 2009-11-05:
After researching this issue even more, it turns out my suspicion against HTTP<-->middleware<-->JMS has been relevant.
There are a few critical problems in this model. Synchronous-asynchronous model with middleware simply isn't convenient. Either have both ends implement JMS connection (which should rock) or go with HTTP in both ends. Mixing them results only in headaches. Of these two, SOAP-over-HTTP is simpler and better supported than SOAP-over-JMS.
Once more: if you are designing this kind of a system... DON'T.
I don't think your suggested solution is hack at all, I think that's the right solution. You have the client-middle layer with a synchronous protocol, and then the middle-server layer using an asynchronous layer, to which you have to add a reply path in order to satisfy the synchronous semantics. That's what middleware is for. Remember that that JMS provides explicit support for temporary reply-to queues, you won't need to mess with the payload at all.
A more left-field possibility is the leverage the fact that SOAP 1.2 was designed with JMS in mind, and so you could use web service layer between middleware and server layer which does SOAP-over-JMS. That means you can keep SOAP from end-to-end, with the middleware changing only the transport.
The only web service stack that I know of that supports JMS transport is Spring Web Services, where the process and development is documented here. This would also give you the opportunity to port your SOAP layer to Spring-WS, which kicks ass :)
Why not add a link to a page that lets users check to see when a response is ready, a la a Fed Ex tracker ID? Give your users the tracker ID when they send the request.
This would fit into the HTTP request/response idiom, and your users would still know that the request is "fire and forget".

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