MQ Badge developer challenge

This is the Java template with code stubs for the MQ Badge developer challenge. You can use this code as a starting point as you build a messaging application that integrates a ticket reseller with a an event booking system.

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Reseller.java

The main entry point for the reseller application is in Reseller.java

Challenge Code Changes

For the challenge you will make code updates to SessionBuilder.java, TicketSubscriber.java and TicketRequester.java.

Compilation

To compile run

javac -cp ./com.ibm.mq.allclient-9.0.4.0.jar:./javax.jms-api-2.0.1.jar com/ibm/mq/demo/*.java

Application

The application will run as a code stub. When run the application logs will indicate where code changes need to be made.

To run the application

java -cp ./com.ibm.mq.allclient-9.0.4.0.jar:./javax.jms-api-2.0.1.jar:. com.ibm.mq.demo.Reseller

Environment variables

You can override the default MQ connection settings using environment variables on the system where you run your Reseller application code.

• MQ_BADGE_QM_HOSTNAME - Specify the Host name or IP address of your queue manager
• MQ_BADGE_QM_NAME - Set the queue manager name
• MQ_BADGE_QM_PORT - Listener port for your queue manager
• MQ_BADGE_CHANNEL - MQ Channel name
• MQ_BADGE_USER - User name that application uses to connect to MQ
• MQ_BADGE_PASSWORD - Password that the application uses to connect to MQ