 WebSphere MQ Version 5.3 WebSphere® MQ messaging products enable application integration by helping business applications to exchange information across different platforms, sending and receiving data as messages. WebSphere® MQ V5.3 is now available for Linux for Intel, Linux for zSeries, iSeries and Microsoft Windows XP. They take care of network interfaces, assure 'once and once only' delivery of messages, deal with communications protocols, dynamically distribute workload across available resources, handle recovery after system problems, and help make programs portable. So programmers can use their skills to handle key business requirements, instead of wrestling with underlying network complexities. Enhancements: - Added security using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the Internet standard for secure communication.
- Enhanced features for performance, especially for JMS ( Java Message Service) applications, making WebSphere MQ the JMS provider of choice.
- Other features have been added to enhance system scalibity and reliability, particularly useful for clustering of systems that can share workload.
- It is now much simpler for programmers to use API exits to allow monitoring or for local standards to be implemented.
- WebSphere MQ 5.3 maintains compatibility with the previous release - IBM MQSeries 5.2.
- All WebSphere MQ Version 5 Release 3 products are Euro compliant, and AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris and Windows versions are Tivoli Ready.
- WebSphere MQ messaging forms the key business integration layer of the WebSphere Software Platform
WebSphere MQ provides a consistent multiplatform, application-programming interface. A key factor is time-independent processing. This means that messages are dealt with promptly, even if one or more recipients are temporarily unavailable. Version 5 Release 3 offers added security using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the Internet standard for secure communication. There are enhanced features for performance—especially for JMS (Java Message Service) applications, making WebSphere MQ the JMS provider of choice. Other features have been added to enhance system scalability and reliability, particularly useful for clustering of systems that can share workload. It is now much simpler for programmers to use API exits to allow monitoring or for local standards to be implemented. WebSphere MQ V5.3 maintains compatibility with the previous release, IBM MQSeries® Version 5.2. All WebSphere MQ Version 5 Release 3 products are Euro compliant, and AIX®, HP-UX, Sun Solaris™ and Microsoft® Windows® versions are Tivoli® ready. WebSphere MQ messaging forms the key business integration layer of the WebSphere software platform. | 
