Installation of the WebSphere MQ resource adapter

The WebSphere® MQ resource adapter is supplied as a resource archive (RAR) file. Install the RAR file in your application server. You might need to add directories to the system path.

The WebSphere MQ resource adapter is supplied as a resource archive (RAR) file called wmq.jmsra.rar. This file is installed with WebSphere MQ classes for JMS in the directory shown in Table 1.

Table 1. The directory containing wmq.jmsra.rar for each platform
Platform	Directory
AIX, HP-UX, Linux® , and Solaris	`MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH` /java/lib/jca
IBM® i	/QIBM/ProdData/mqm/java/lib/jca
Windows	`MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH` \java\lib\jca
`MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH` represents the high-level directory in which WebSphere MQ is installed.

The RAR file contains WebSphere MQ classes for JMS and the WebSphere MQ implementation of the JCA interfaces.

You must install the WebSphere MQ resource adapter RAR file in your application server, but the way you do this depends on the application server. See the documentation for your application server for information about how to install a resource adapter RAR file.

For bindings connections on UNIX and Linux systems, you must ensure that the directory containing the Java Native Interface (JNI) libraries is in the system path. For the location of this directory, which also contains the WebSphere MQ classes for JMS libraries, see Table 1. On Windows, this directory is automatically added to the system path during the installation of WebSphere MQ classes for JMS .

Transactions are supported in both client and bindings mode.

The WebSphere MQ resource adapter and the version of WebSphere MQ classes for JMS used by the resource adapter must be at the same release level.