Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

1 Introduction and Roadmap

• Document Scope and Audience
• Guide to This Document
• Related Documentation
• Samples and Tutorials for the JMS Developer
  • Avitek Medical Records Application (MedRec) and Tutorials
• New and Changed Features in This Release

2 Understanding the Messaging Bridge

• What Is a Messaging Bridge?
• Messaging Bridge Components
  • Resource Adapters
  • Source and Target Bridge Destinations
    • JMS Bridge Destinations
  • Messaging Bridge Instance
• Configuring and Managing a Messaging Bridge
  • Create a Messaging Bridge Instance
  • Manage a Messaging Bridge Instance

3 Designing a Messaging Bridge

• When to use a Messaging Bridge
  • Store and Forward Messaging
  • Replicating a Topic
• When to Avoid using a Messaging Bridge
• Selecting a Quality-of-Service (QOS) Level
• Messaging Persistence
• Message Ordering
• Setting the Number of Connection Factories
• Preserving Message Properties
• Using the JMSXUserID Property with a Messaging Bridge
• Using Distributed Destinations as Source and Target Destinations
• Tuning a WebLogic Messaging Bridge

4 Interoperating with Different WebLogic Server Releases or Foreign Providers

• Interoperating with Different WebLogic Server Releases
  • Supported Configurations and Compatibility
  • Naming Guidelines for WebLogic Servers and Domains
  • Configuring Interoperability for WebLogic Domains
    • Configuring Interoperability for Exactly-once QOS
    • Configuring At-least-once or At-most-once QOS
• Interoperating with Foreign Providers

5 FAQs: WebLogic Messaging Bridge

• Why did the messaging bridge fail to connect to the source bridge destination?
• Why are some of my messages not being forwarded?
• Can the messaging bridge handle two-phase or global transactions between separate WebLogic Server domains or between different releases?
• I configured the messaging bridge to use the Exactly-once quality of service for two-phase transactions. So why am I getting a "quality of service is unreachable" error?
• Can a messaging bridge to automatically downgrade the quality of service if the Exactly-once service is not available on either the source or target bridge destination?
• I deployed the transactional jms-xa-adp.rar resource adapter on domain where the message bridge is running, but I still get a "failed to find bridge adapter" message?
• When configuring a source or target messaging bridge destination, do I need to set the Adapter Classpath field?
• How do I enable debugging for the messaging bridge?
• What do the messaging bridge monitoring states indicate on the Monitor Messaging Bridge console page?
• Is there another way to monitor the messaging bridge without using the Administration Console?
• Can the messaging bridge use distributed destinations as source and target destinations?