I was able to get this working with help from David. 1. placed all jars files from rar under tomee/lib.
*2. Added the below to conf/tomee.xml * <Container id="wmq" type="MESSAGE"> ResourceAdapter=wmqRA MessageListenerInterface=javax.jms.MessageListener ActivationSpecClass=com.ibm.mq.connector.inbound.ActivationSpecImpl </Container> <Resource id="wmqRA" type="com.ibm.mq.connector.ResourceAdapterImpl" class-name="com.ibm.mq.connector.ResourceAdapterImpl"> connectionConcurrency=5 maxConnections=10 logWriterEnabled=true reconnectionRetryCount=5 reconnectionRetryInterval=300000 traceEnabled=false traceLevel=3 </Resource> <Resource id="qcf" type="javax.jms.ConnectionFactory" class-name="com.ibm.mq.connector.outbound.ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl"> TransactionSupport=none ResourceAdapter=wmqRA HostName=10.x.y.z Port=1414 QueueManager=QM_TIERL Channel=SYSTEM.ADMIN.SVRCONN TransportType=Client UserName=xyz Password=xyz </Resource> <Resource id="wmq-javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory" type="javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory" class-name="com.ibm.mq.connector.outbound.ManagedQueueConnectionFactoryImpl"> TransactionSupport=none ResourceAdapter=wmqRA </Resource> <Resource id="wmq-javax.jms.TopicConnectionFactory" type="javax.jms.TopicConnectionFactory" class-name="com.ibm.mq.connector.outbound.ManagedTopicConnectionFactoryImpl"> TransactionSupport=none ResourceAdapter=wmqRA </Resource> <Resource id="queue" type="javax.jms.Queue" class-name="com.ibm.mq.connector.outbound.MQQueueProxy"> arbitraryProperties baseQueueManagerName xyz baseQueueName xzy CCSID=1208 encoding=NATIVE expiry=APP failIfQuiesce=true persistence=APP priority=APP readAheadClosePolicy=ALL targetClient=JMS </Resource> <Resource id="wmq-javax.jms.Topic" type="javax.jms.Topic" class-name="com.ibm.mq.connector.outbound.MQTopicProxy"> arbitraryProperties baseTopicName brokerCCDurSubQueue=SYSTEM.JMS.D.CC.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE brokerDurSubQueue=SYSTEM.JMS.D.SUBSCRIBER.QUEUE brokerPubQueue brokerPubQueueManager brokerVersion=1 CCSID=1208 encoding=NATIVE expiry=APP failIfQuiesce=true persistence=APP priority=APP readAheadClosePolicy=ALL targetClient=JMS </Resource> Deployed War file: using <resource-ref> <res-ref-name>myqcf</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.jms.ConnectionFactory</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> <res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope> <mapped-name>qcf</mapped-name> </resource-ref> <resource-env-ref> <resource-env-ref-name>myqueue</resource-env-ref-name> <resource-env-ref-type>javax.jms.Queue</resource-env-ref-type> <mapped-name>queue</mapped-name> </resource-env-ref> In Controller: @Resource(name = "qcf") private ConnectionFactory connectionFactory; @Resource(name = "queue") private Queue queue; The rest was jms code. Connection connection = connectionFactory.createConnection(); Session session = connection.createSession(false, QueueSession.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE); MessageProducer producer = session.createProducer(queue); TextMessage message = session.createTextMessage(); message.setText("test data"); connection.start(); producer.send(message); session.close(); connection.close(); Rohid -- View this message in context: http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/websphere-MQ-tp4658647p4659149.html Sent from the OpenEJB User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.