MDB with foreign JMS : WLS 9.23

Question

For the love of _____ (fill in your own muse of desperation here), is there some categorical statement of whether WLS9.23 actually ***works*** with MDB's and foreign JMS providers? Whereever I search/find, people have trouble with this.
          Some kind BEA sould - please. Please, please please : publish a canonical example of MDB with secured foreign-JNDI provided connx factory, and either a queue or a topic.
          I'm beginning to wonder if this works at all.

Answer 1

Good morning!
          Categorical Statement: WLS supports JMS spec compliant foreign providers for MDBs, bridges, resource-references, foreign providers. We also support sending a foreign providers message using a WebLogic JMS client.
          For general Tibco integration questions, I recall that the Tibco docs themselves contain WebLogic integration examples. There's also some much mention of Tibco in the out-dated "Using Foreign JMS Providers with WebLogic Server" white-paper on dev2dev.
          That said, there have been definitely been problems with Tibco and MQ's latest release, as they both recently released semi-non-JMS compliant clients that our wrapper code was unprepared to deal with. In short, we were caught unawares when these clients stopped supporting the 1.0.2 APIs even though 1.1 specification clearly requires both 1.1 and 1.0.2 support. Rather than ask Tibco and MQ teams to have them patch their code (an approach we've sometimes taken over the years), we chose this time to enhance our code.
          I think the problems were all fixed by 9.23 - but you may want to contact customer support to see if there are any additional patches required. Alternatively, you can try use a slightly older Tibco client, as presumably their older clients are still able to interoperate with their latest server version (this approach works with MQ).
          Tom