Patent ID: 7467388

Claim:
In a computing environment including applications configured to receive messages from queues, a method of allowing queue messages to be pulled by one or more applications, the method comprising: registering with an activation service a protocol adapter for a message queue center comprising a queue; receiving configuration data for applications managed by the activation service, wherein the configuration data for applications managed by the activation service comprises at least one of protocol infonriation, name and/or path of applications using the message queue center protocol, or machine information specifying a machine where queues are located; correlating applications to queues by correlating queue names, the queue names including prefixes to application paths by correlating portions of the prefixes to portions of the paths by matching prefix elements to path elements: monitoring the queue to discover new messages in the queue; receiving a notification that a new message has been added to the queue; and providing an indication to the activation service to allow the activation service to activate an application correlated to the queue by using an application path correlated to the queue name by matching prefix elements to path elements on an element basis and to allow the application to pull the new message from the queue.