System and method for messaging
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAndrew Hickson, Brian Homewood, Tristram Reilly
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Abstract
A system and method for messaging in which, when a connection to a queue manager (220) is established, the queue manager allocates a Connection Identifier from the same name space (300) as Message Identifiers and returns this information (400) to the user. The user can then use this Connection Identifier as a Correlation Identifier, safe in the knowledge that it will not clash with any system generated Message Identifier or Correlation Identifier. A secondary benefit to this allocation scheme is that if a shared reply queue suffers from a build-up of messages then the Correlation Identifier in those messages can be used to identify the application expected to receive those messages.
Claims16
A method of identifier allocation in a messaging system, the method comprising:
- allocating a message identifier from a predetermined name space, and
- Allocating a connection identifier from said predetermined name space.
A messaging system including identifier allocation, the system comprising:
- means for allocating a message identifier from a predetermined name space, and
- means for allocating a connection identifier from said predetermined name space.
A storage medium embodying computer software instructions for controlling a computer to perform a method of identifier allocation in a messaging system, comprising:
- instructions for allocating a message identifier from a predetermined name space, and
- instructions for allocating a connection identifier from said predetermined name space.
The storage medium of claim 14 further comprising instructions for conveying the allocated connection identifier in a data structure including a predetermined.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.