Flexible middleware messaging system

A service delivery platform (SDP) defined within a telecommunication network computer system that provides a new interface while maintaining backwards compatibility with an external telecommunication network platform comprising:

• a first node and a second node each configured to host multiple telecommunication applications, the second node serving as a backup to the first node, the SDP comprising:
• a message database;
• and
• a middleware messaging system, the middleware messaging system comprising configurable components comprising executable software for a plurality of SDP consumers and a plurality of SDP producers, the configurable components communicatively coupling a message queue (MQ) farm and an MQ queue of the external telecommunication network platform,
• the middleware messaging system configured to
• parse messages retrieved from the MQ farm and to selectively deliver messages to a destination comprising one of:
• the MQ queue or a table inside the message database, based on the parsing of the messages, wherein selectively delivering the messages further comprises:
• retrieving, by an SDP consumer, a first message from the MQ farm, the first message comprising identifier information;
• identifying, by the SDP consumer, a route of the first message based on the identifier information and a routing table stored in the middleware messaging system;
• transmitting the message, based on the identified route, to one of the MQ queue or the table inside the message database;
• receiving, via a first SDP consumer of the plurality of SDP consumers, a first failover message from the first node by way of the MQ queue, and a second SDP consumer of the plurality of SDP consumers is configured to receive a second failover message from the second node by way of the MQ queue, the second failover message comprising information indicating that the second node is the active node for a particular telecommunication application hosted on the external telecommunication network platform;
• and
• in response to the second failover message, connecting respective configurable components corresponding to the instance of the particular telecommunication application to the second node and releasing a connection between the first node and the respective configurable components corresponding to a different instance of the particular telecommunication application.

A method of brokering messages between a message queue system of a customer information system (CIS) and a point-to-point messaging system of a service control point management system (SCPMS) comprising:

• on a service delivery platform (SDP):
• dynamically creating service delivery platform (SDP) consumers by way of a configuration file without restarting a system managing the SDP consumers;
• dynamically creating SDP producers by way of the configuration file without restarting the system managing the SDP consumers, the SDP consumers and SDP producers comprising executable software;
• receiving, by an SDP consumer of the SDP consumers, a message in message queue (MQ) format from the CIS;
• determining, by the SDP consumer, a destination application based on header information in the message and based on a routing table;
• transmitting messages between the CIS and SCPMS, wherein a first instance of a telecommunication application is hosted on a first node of the SCPMS, the SCPMS further comprising a backup node;
• receiving, by an SDP producer corresponding to the backup node, a failover message from the backup node indicating a second instance of the telecommunication application is hosted on the backup node;
• determining messages pending a response from the first instance of the telecommunication application hosted on the first node;
• transmitting the messages to the second instance of the telecommunication application;
• releasing a connection to the first instance of the telecommunication application hosted on the first node;
• and
• parsing messages retrieved, by the SDP consumer, from a MQ farm, and selectively delivering messages to a destination comprising one of:
• an MQ queue of the SCPMS or a database located on the SDP, based on the parsing of the message and the routing table, by:
• retrieving, by the SDP consumer, a first message from the MQ farm, the first message comprising identifier information;
• identifying, by the SDP consumer, a route of the first message based on the identifier information and the routing table;
• and
• transmitting the message, based on the identified route, to one of the MQ queue or the database.