WebSphere MQ Everyplace

Industry-strength messaging optimized for the mobile environment

- Asynchronous & synchronous messaging
- Authentication, encryption, non-repudiation and compression
- Automatic channel management
- Built-in comprehensive security features
- Object messaging (data & function)
- Once-only assured delivery

Compliments the synchronization and portal capabilities of WebSphere Everyplace Access by providing robust message delivery to address the problem of intermittent network connectivity.

Ideal when combined with WebSphere Everyplace Connection Manager to create robust and highly flexible mobile and wireless solutions with these characteristics:

- Seamless network roaming
- Broad network coverage
- Network independence/abstraction to TCP/IP layer - developers are shielded from network complexities
- Optimal and configurable communications usage - compression, rules-based delivery
- High and granular security end-to-end - encryption, authentication

Extends other WebSphere Business Integration offerings and transports to the mobile and wireless environment

- WebSphere MQ
- WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker
- WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker
- WebSphere Business Integration Server

Flexible, customizable messaging

- Access to local & remote queues
- Client-server & peer-to-peer messaging support
- Customizable device footprint
- Designed to pass through firewalls
- Direct & indirect routing
- Message push & message pull
- Pluggable queue & communications adapters
- Rule-based operations

Pluggable network support with configurable message caching

- HTTP
- TCP/IP
- UDP

Seamless network roaming and access to a wide range of additional wireless network technologies, local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) when used with WebSphere Everyplace Connection Manager.

Offers a choice of implementations to provide support for different programming languages and environments. These implementations are interoperable.

- Java™ implementation - for use where Java is the preferred language and for Java Message Service (JMS) compatible messaging
- C implementation - for use where C is the preferred language and for devices where Java Runtime Environments are not available

Broad support for languages, platforms, messaging standards and environments

- Java™
- JMS™ API - for point-to-point messaging
- J2ME™ - for CLDC/MIDP and CDC/Foundation device profiles
- C
- Wide support for over 35 operating systems including Microsoft® Windows® XP® (Professional Edition) and Pocket PC 2002
- Small and customizable footprint (both in terms of installed code and wire protocol)

WebSphere MQ Everyplace is available in two editions:

- Network Edition for integrating mobile and wireless devices with the enterprise
- Retail Edition for integrating retail store controllers and point of sale with head office systems