My personal inclination would be to create a small piece of "middleware" in Java that can expose the JMS queues via a web service interface and then use existing Perl modules to access that.

Depending on the JMS implementation you might also have an API in some other language that you can use more easily from Perl than Java.

And of course there is always Inline::Java

/J\

Thanks gellyfish, I'm considering this option, and in this particular case (Tibco EMS), there may even be an sdk somewhere for Perl if I am lucky. I'm tempted to use Inline::Java, but am not so familiar with it. Is it reliable in important systems, or does it suffer from "issues"?

hackmare.

A small hint on asking meaningful questions. If you're going to use an abbreviation in your question, then please explain which expansion of the abbreviation you are talking about. I assume that by "JMS", you mean Java Messaging Service, but there are many other possibilities.

Also, you want to see the JMS specification to "roll" your own. See:

Java Message Service Specification-v1.1

Thanks for the spec link. Exactly what I need. PBJ::JNI looks a little bit young. Do you know if it reliable/usable?

hackmare.