Since the example provided by The Midnight Coderers didn’t prove to work I tried also to implement your solution. Again without success.

Here are my two Functions which do the job of un/subscribing:
private function msmqUnSubscribe():void {
if(this.mqConsumer) {

this.mqConsumer.removeEventListener( MessageEvent.MESSAGE, mqConsumer_onMessage );
this.mqConsumer.removeEventListener( MessageFaultEvent.FAULT, onMessageFault );
this.mqConsumer.channelSet.disconnectAll();

this.mqConsumer.unsubscribe();
this.mqConsumer.disconnect();

this.mqConsumer = null;
}
}

private function msmqSubscribe():void {

var subQueue:String = this.aPages.getItemAt(this.iActivePage)["page"];

var cs:ChannelSet = new ChannelSet();
var uri:String = “rtmp://{server.name}:2037/”;

var channel:WeborbMessagingChannel = new WeborbMessagingChannel(subQueue, uri);
channel.addEventListener(MessageEvent.MESSAGE, onMessage);
cs.addChannel(channel);

this.mqConsumer = new WeborbConsumer();
this.mqConsumer.destination = “ttx”;
this.mqConsumer.channelSet = cs;

this.mqConsumer.addEventListener( MessageEvent.MESSAGE, mqConsumer_onMessage );
this.mqConsumer.addEventListener(MessageFaultEvent.FAULT, onMessageFault);

this.mqConsumer.subqueue = subQueue;
this.mqConsumer.subscribe();
}

Here’s also the WebORB configuration stuff:

.\private$\[destinationName]
0
0
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
WebORB MessageQueue for Messages from Windows client
4294967295
false
4294967295

I don’t know what else to do but instead of using MSMQ to periodically probe the server…

To answer your question I’ll give you a link that somehow does what you are doing but not with a Perl program (it’s a Windows Form Application). See link. Here Flex subscribes to a certain queue and the Windows Form Application pushes messages into the queue. They finally arrive in Flex, so it’s certainly possible. I once tried the example and it worked.

How does WebOrb know which messages to pull from the queue? The queues that WebOrb listens to are configured in one of the xml files in WEB-INF. I don’t know how WebOrb does it in code because it’s a black box. If you’d like to know in terms of source code how it’s being done, you’d have to check FluorineFx, the open source alternative that works somehow the same.

If, before you run your example, you surfed to the weborb examples on your localhost, then the port 2037 will be blocked. You’ll need to restart iis and in Task Manager end the w3wp.exe processes (if an example is not working I suggest to do this before giving up on your example). I’m talking about what to do in Vista, maybe on XP the process has another name.

Greetz

and the mesaging-config has this code:

.\private$\weborb-mqpush

0
0
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
WebORB MessageQueue for Messages from Windows client
4294967295
false
4294967295

Then in global.asax I have:
void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
Weborb.Config.ORBConfig config = new Weborb.Config.ORBConfig();
Weborb.Messaging.RTMPServer server = new Weborb.Messaging.RTMPServer( “default”, 2037, 500, config );
server.start();
Application[ "weborbMessagingServer" ] = server;
}
catch( Exception )
{
}
}

and all the rest of the code is exactly untouched from the Midnight coders example.

I had your problem in the past. In my case I had a different site set up with weborb. First I went to the weborb installation site. The weborbee.exe was started and port 2037 was used. If I ran the example in my custom site, the same thing happened as in your case. Apparently both sites could sent messages to MSMQ but only the first started (weborb installation site) was listening if new messages were added.

Maybe you can send me your example and I’ll have a look at it.

You copied the example code for Data Push out of the example weborb provided? Or my example?

Re the Weborb installation example:
I tried the ‘flex message with MSMQ’ example (the one with the drawing board and text panels) and it worked great. I even checked the MSMQ and could see the messages and the queue listed.

I guess I don’t realy understand what weborbee is doing and what the server.start is doing from within the global.asax. Why do we need weborbee if we can start a server from global.asax?

Anyway, having said all that, I’m no closer to a solution, and the strange thing, is that I simply copied the example code for Data Push.

Does the example in the weborb installation work?

I do not work with the weborbee.exe, instead I start the RTMPServer for WebORB in the Application_Start of the global.asax (there are also examples on this in the weborb installation I think).

void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
Weborb.Config.ORBConfig config = new Weborb.Config.ORBConfig();

String name = “default”;
int port = Convert.ToInt32(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["WebORBMessagingPort"]);
int backlog = 500;
log.Info(“Starting RTMPServer(” + name + “, ” + port + “, ” + backlog + “, ” + config.ToString());

Weborb.Messaging.RTMPServer server = new Weborb.Messaging.RTMPServer( “default”, port, 500, config );
server.start();
Application[ "weborbMessagingServer" ] = server;

//Weborb.Util.Logging.Log.removeLogger(“default”);
}
catch( Exception exception )
{
log.Error(“Application_Start”, exception);
}
}

Even if you use the global.asax, restart IIS before running the example.

Answer some of the questions and maybe I can be a little more specific.

If you go to http://localhost/weborb30/weborbconsole.html , you should try the example Flex Messaging With MSMQ. If that’s working, then we should be able to find a solution.