Fuse Message Broker - Connectivity Guide - Introduction to the REST Protocol

Introduction to the REST Protocol

Overview

The REST protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol that enables you to contact the message broker through a Web browser. You can contact the message broker by navigating to appropriately formatted URLs or by posting HTML forms.

Transport protocols

The Fuse Message Broker's REST protocol is based on a subset of the HTTP protocol. Hence, HTTP is the only supported transport.

Supported clients

REST supports the following client types:

Web forms—use conventional HTML forms to POST a message to a destination (queue or topic) or to GET a message from a destination—see Example of posting a message .
Ajax clients—an Asynchronous JavaScript And Xml (Ajax) library that enables you to communicate with a REST endpoint using JavaScript in a DHTML Web page.

REST servlets

The REST protocol is implemented by the following servlets running in a Web container:

message servlet—supports the sending and consuming of messages.
queueBrowse servlet—enables you to view the current status of a particular queue.

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