Wednesday, January 13, 2010

IBM MQSeries queue viewer (Hermes)

At long last I managed to get JMS Hermes working with IBM MQSeries queues. These notes are about how I did it. First, there is a very useful install guide at
http://www.hermesjms.com/confluence/display/HJMS/Installing
A little detail it misses out is that you must set JAVA_HOME as well as HERMES_ROOT. Also, when you track down the jars for MQ, you might find it hard to find the PCF jar. I found it at
 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=171&uid=swg24000668&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8〈=en
Finally, there is a flash tutorial at http://www.hermesjms.com/demos/demo_mq.html. It is a little out of date but still very helpful.