IBM Simplifies Programming with AMIs
IBM’s MQSeries has released a high level API that simplifies programming for application messaging and publish/subscribe called the Application Messaging Interface (AMI). IBM specified and developed the API, which has now been adopted as a standard by the Open Application Group Inc. (OAGI).
The AMI, with bindings for standard programming languages including Java, C and C++, reduces the amount of new code required for new applications. It provides a high level of abstraction, moving message-handling logic from the application into the middleware, allowing programmers to register sets of standard characteristics as policies for message-handling. IBM will provide a suite of common policies, and an open policy-handler framework that encourages additional policies to be created by the enterprise or third-party software vendors.
The AMI also allows programmers to associate a service name with a message. The service is a high level of abstraction that represents an MQSeries queue, but can also be implemented to communicate with a database, a printer or e-mail, for example.
The AMI, and visual tools for building policies, are available now, as SupportPacs.
To download the MQSeries Application Messaging Interface free of charge, visit www.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries/txppacs/ma0f.html (new window). To download the MQSeries Application Messaging Interface Administration Tool, also free of charge, visit www.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries/txppacs/ma0g.html (new window).