Reliable transport for Web services
Web services provide a standards-based mechanism for re-useable software components to interact over networks.
SOAP messages between Web services are typically transported over HTTP. HTTP is the synchronous, request-response protocol commonally used by Web browsers for accessing the Internet.
WebSphere MQ can provide a more reliable, transactional transport than HTTP over which SOAP messages can be exchanged.
Download book on WebSphere MQ as a transport for SOAP .
Like HTTP, WebSphere MQ provides a transport layer for SOAP messages to flow across. The following table highlights the advantages of using WebSphere MQ.
|Reliable message delivery (Once-and-once only)||Helps preserve data integrity. Messages not lost or duplicated by transport.||No||Yes|
|Asynchronous communication||Web services need not be available or active in order for requests and responses to be exchanged. Service requestors can do useful work whilst waiting for replies.||No||Yes|
|High availability, resilience and workload distribution||Reliable, enterprise-class transport.||No||Yes|
|Monitoring, Auditing and Logging||Know what when where and to whom||No||Yes|
|Flexible messaging||Building and maintaining a dynamic data distribution model can be simplified with publish-subscribe messaging||No||Yes|
|Access to rich portfolio of Adapters||Connectivity to existing applications is straightforward and easy.||No||Yes|
|Availability of powerful message brokers||Easy path to powerful messaging transformation services.||No||Yes|