The person on StackOverflow made a comment that I was using a static string as my reply message. Humm. Some times people cannot see the forest for the trees.
So, I have updated my sample Java/MQ (i.e. MQTest77.java) in this posting to do the following:
- Connect to a remote queue manager
- Open an input queue, get a message, close the queue
- Extract the MQRFH2 variables
- Take a checksum of the incoming message payload
- Use the checksum as a seed value for the random number generator
- Generate Powerball numbers and a create reply payload with that information
- Open the output queue
- Create a new reply message with the extracted RFH2 values and the reply payload then send the reply message
- Close the output queue and disconnect from the queue manager
There you go, nothing static about the reply text in the reply message.
Although, this did feel like doing a lab assignment for a Java programming course. 🙂
And of course, if anyone wins the Powerball lottery or any other lottery with my code, I DO expect a 10% cut of the winnings!! 🙂
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
