Processing TCP/IP messages

You can use IBM® Integration Bus to connect to applications that use raw TCP/IP sockets for transferring data.

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If you have existing applications that use raw TCP/IP sockets for transferring data, you can use the IBM Integration Bus TCP/IP nodes to connect to the applications, without needing to enable them for WebSphere® MQ.

IBM Integration Bus implements access to the TCP/IP input and output streams through the following nodes:

TCPIPClientInput node
TCPIPClientOutput node
TCPIPClientReceive node
TCPIPServerInput node
TCPIPServerOutput node
TCPIPServerReceive node

For information about how to use the TCP/IP support, see Working with TCP/IP.

The following topics contain information that you need to understand before you can use TCP/IP in an IBM Integration Bus application:

TCP/IP data transfer
TCP/IP nodes
Connection management
Configuring TCP/IP client nodes to use SSL
Scenarios for IBM Integration Bus and TCP/IP