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| jeevan |
 Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject: MQ objects vs MQ services |
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In order to administer a MQ network, it does not matter whether we call a listener a service or an Object. But some time it is confusing whether to call a component an object or a service.
Specially, while going through documentation, sometime is it so confusing ( just terminology, though it does not make a difference in working or administering mq network as said above).
Do we call an object when we can define it with define command or can create it with OS command line utility eg crtmqm? Or are we following OOPS definition?
To be an object, if we are follwoing object Orientated Programming (OPS) terminology, it has to have an attribute and a state. From that point, the follwoing coud be termed as an objects
1. authinfo ( does it have a state? but has attribute)
2. queue manager( has state and attribute)
3. queues (does have state and attribute)
4. channel ( has a state and attr)
5. listener( has both)
6. namelist( does it have a state?)
7. process (does it have state?, definitely has attributes)
8. service (has attributes and state eg. SVSTATUS)
9. topic ( seems to have both)
Questions:
what about namelist and process? We call them objects but do they have a state?
What about SUB, and CONN? Is connection a services ? an object? none? I think SUB can be an object as we can create it
and has a state.
What about a command servder? We can not define a command server.Does not this mean it is still a service?
The main question is what is the basis of categorizing an object and a service in MQ ? |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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I think the easy way to go about services is:
Anything that could be defined under either listener or services using runmqsc or the OS (Windows services) can be looked at as a service.
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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I would not extrapolate WMQs use of the term object with all of its meanings to the greater OO world of objects. This will lead you (and countless others) away from WMQs use of the term.
WMQ objects are objects in the (more limited) sense that objects have attributes, and attributes have values.
WMQ objects are (with the exception of the qmgr) created with MQSC (or equivalent). I try to avoid using the term instantiated here because it has a very different meaning in the OO world, like inheritance. (I suppose it could be argued that DEF QL(BOB) inherits its attribute values from the SYSTEM.DEFAULT.LOCAL.QUEUE.) Note that the official doc doesn't use instantiate.
Your example of listeners is more accurately a comparison of a standalone program or utility or service vs. a listener object created by MQSC. Again, no exact match for the OO world.
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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In MQ parlance, almost every defineable thing is regarded as an OBJECT (queues, channels, namelists, queue managers etc, more than 20 types in total), although messages are not objects. MQ v6 introduced a new concept of a defineable SERVICE, so that programs could be started and stopped in concert with the queue manager.
OBJECTS can have static "attibute" information, as well "state" or "status" information which dynamically changes as they are used.
The bottom line is that the design and terminology of MQ should not be compared to object oriented priniciples as it has does not have a great deal in common.
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| jeevan |
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| gbaddeley wrote: |
In MQ parlance, almost every defineable thing is regarded as an OBJECT (queues, channels, namelists, queue managers etc, more than 20 types in total), although messages are not objects. MQ v6 introduced a new concept of a defineable SERVICE, so that programs could be started and stopped in concert with the queue manager.
OBJECTS can have static "attibute" information, as well "state" or "status" information which dynamically changes as they are used.
The bottom line is that the design and terminology of MQ should not be compared to object oriented priniciples as it has does not have a great deal in common. |
My only intention of this discussion was to look for what mq community of users agrees what they call an object or a service.
I only refer OOPS for an example but I did not say we should follow the same principle here in mq world. However, I think there should be some sort of logic or basis to call a mq components an object or a services.
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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The term used to describe the MQ Listener, Channel Initiator and Command Server is debatable. They all separate executing processes. The MQSC manual calls the Listener an OBJECT, but doesn't use any specific term for the chinit or cmdserv.
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| bruce2359 |
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For (lack of) clarity, the WMQ System Admin manual refers to control command runmqchi:
Run a channel initiator process to automate starting channels.
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| jeevan |
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| gbaddeley |
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hmm, that Infocenter page implies that MQ SERVICES are also MQ OBJECTS. 
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| jeevan |
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| gbaddeley wrote: |
hmm, that Infocenter page implies that MQ SERVICES are also MQ OBJECTS. |
I think that is the SERVICE object which could be defined using DEFNE SERVICE(xxxxx) etc |
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