Message Bridge or Foreign JMS

Question

          HI
          We are planning to use MQ with our WebLogic setup we are using WL8.1
          and MQ 5.2.
          Just wanted to find out if setting up MQ as a Foreign JMS is better than Bridging.
          The Foreign JMS provider setup seems to be much easier than the bridge.
          Do we get two phase commits with Foreign setup.
          Previously 6.1 sp5 when you setup a bridge with MQ the setup used to complain
          saying that we cannot use the XA adapter with 6.1 and MQ5.2, in 8.1 when we setup
          the driver and create a bridge it does not complain anymore does it mean that
          2PC works with WL8.1 and MQ5.2
          Thanks in Advance.
          Shekar
          

Answer 1

And yes, you may not need the bridge
          in 8.1 unless your use case demands it. The bridge
          is useful for store-and-forward type designs
          between vendors - for instance, with the bridge
          a sender can still send to MQ even if MQ is down
          as they are sending to a WL queue which is bridged
          to MQ.
          Tom Barnes wrote:
          > Hi Sheckar,
          >
          > XA with MQ works in 6.1, I do not know why you were
          > getting the bridge error message, perhaps you switched
          > MQ versions.
          >
          > Perhaps you are unaware that:
          >
          > MQ5.N supports XA only if the MQ client is running on the
          > same machine as the MQ server.
          >
          > MQ5.(N+1) contains a feature that allows the MQ client to work
          > transactionally remotely. "MQ extended client" or somesuch.
          >
          > I think N is 2, but I'm not sure.
          >
          > Tom
          >
          > Shekar wrote:
          >
          >> HI
          >> We are planning to use MQ with our WebLogic setup we are
          >> using WL8.1
          >> and MQ 5.2.
          >> Just wanted to find out if setting up MQ as a Foreign JMS is better
          >> than Bridging.
          >> The Foreign JMS provider setup seems to be much easier than the bridge.
          >> Do we get two phase commits with Foreign setup.
          >>
          >> Previously 6.1 sp5 when you setup a bridge with MQ the setup
          >> used to complain
          >> saying that we cannot use the XA adapter with 6.1 and MQ5.2, in 8.1
          >> when we setup
          >> the driver and create a bridge it does not complain anymore does it
          >> mean that
          >> 2PC works with WL8.1 and MQ5.2
          >>
          >> Thanks in Advance.
          >> Shekar
          >>
          >>
          >