4.0 Enterprise Edition

Hi,I have installed the open source MQ from http://mq.dev.java.net. It is an enterprise edition (I have successfully installed ssl support). Is there any way to have official sun support for it? (SJS MQ is at 3.6)
[227 byte] By [ugol] at [2007-11-26 7:54:14]
# 1

Support is only available for Sun Java System Message Queue and you must pay the license fee as well as the support fee.

You can obtain a supportable copy from Solaris Enterprise System download.

Currently SJS MQ 4 is only supported as the JMS provider in Sun Java System Application Server 9.0 (PE). No supported stand-alone version is yet available. In general, we are not allowed to provide future release dates for any products.

If you have product issues, comments or problems you may post them here, or file issue tracker reports at mq.dev.java.net, though only "community" is available and there is no service guarantee available for this type of feedback.

That said, we are interested in your feedback or experience, so please don't hesitate to respond.

Thank you for your interest.

ebratt at 2007-7-6 20:16:57 > top of Java-index,Application & Integration Servers,Sun Java System Message Queue...
# 2

> Currently SJS MQ 4 is only supported as the JMS provider in Sun Java System

> Application Server 9.0 (PE). No supported stand-alone version is yet available. In

> general, we are not allowed to provide future release dates for any products.

Are users required to enable the 90-day trial license to enable the "enterprise features" ? such as cluster broker ?

jsalvo at 2007-7-6 20:16:57 > top of Java-index,Application & Integration Servers,Sun Java System Message Queue...
# 3

> Are users required to enable the 90-day trial license

> to enable the "enterprise features" ? such as

> cluster broker ?

no. The 4.0 is enterprise ready and has no need of trial licenses. Being open source, that would be a strange thing to do... and fairly easy to disable, you have the source!

ugol at 2007-7-6 20:16:57 > top of Java-index,Application & Integration Servers,Sun Java System Message Queue...
# 4

>> Are users required to enable the 90-day trial license

>> to enable the "enterprise features" ? such as

>> cluster broker ?

>no. The 4.0 is enterprise ready and has no need of trial licenses. Being open source, that would be a strange thing to do... and fairly easy to disable, you have the source

Thanks for the info. This information ( about not needing the trial-license to enable to enterprise features on 4.0 ) is not documented anywhere. So it might be good for others to know that it is not needed for 4.0.

Now that you mentioned it, I'll have another look at MQ 4.0 ( which I disregarded some days ago because all the docs that I can see says you need a trial-license )

John

jsalvo at 2007-7-6 20:16:57 > top of Java-index,Application & Integration Servers,Sun Java System Message Queue...
# 5

Ahh ... the enterprise license is actually part of the binary:

[root@jsalvo-desktop mq]# bin/imqbrokerd -license

The following licenses are available:

Package - Description

unl- Sun Java(tm) System Message Queue 4.0 Enterprise Edition

std- Sun Java(tm) System Message Queue 4.0 Standard Edition

try- Sun Java(tm) System Message Queue 4.0 Trial Edition

pe- Sun Java(tm) System Message Queue 4.0 Platform Edition

To start the broker with a specific license,

use the parameter -license <package>, e.g.,

imqbrokerd -license unl

imqbrokerd -license try

imqbrokerd -license pe

So I guess one just needs to use "-license unl" command-line argument.

jsalvo at 2007-7-6 20:16:57 > top of Java-index,Application & Integration Servers,Sun Java System Message Queue...
# 6

> imqbrokerd -license unl

> imqbrokerd -license try

> imqbrokerd -license pe

> guess one just needs to use "-license unl"

> command-line argument.

No, you don't need to do anything special, because probably that's the default. The problem is that the "official" docs.sun.com is for 3.6 and not for 4.0. AFAIK, no specific docs for 4.0 exists (I have found only the 4.0 release note http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5946 as part of the AS 9.0 docs)... besides that, the two releases are not that much different and the most of docs applies.

So the best advice is to download it and test it.

ugol at 2007-7-6 20:16:57 > top of Java-index,Application & Integration Servers,Sun Java System Message Queue...