Sun Microsystems Inc has gone to Enron Communications Inc for intelligent messaging middleware technology, which it will sell under the name Java Message Queue. The product, a message-oriented middleware system, is the first Sun implementation of the Java Message Service API, which defines common interfaces to exchange information between applications over a network. Sun says it will support both traditional web applications an emerging broadband services like video conferencing and IP telephony through Java Message Queue. It will be available late in September and will include a full set of C and C++ APIs. Future versions will also support XML formatted messages and operate with other messaging middleware products such as Microsoft Corp’s MSMQ and IBM Corp’s MQ Series.
Earlier this week, IBM said that the forthcoming MQSeries Version 5.1 would also support XML and Java-based messaging capabilities, along with new MQSeries APIs, and new versions of the MQSeries Integrator message broker and MQSeries Workflow. IBM will support the Application Messaging Interface, also endorsed by Open Applications Group members as a standard middleware API for application integration, along with Java Message Service and (later on) the Common Message Interface, designed to simplify message. All the APIs can be used with each other, IBM said.
