Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

We have the situation where we need to receive messages from our partner, who only can use MQ Series to send them. So we are looking into ways how to solve it on our end, which is on a Unix server. We will only read messages, and the other side will be a black box for us which will provide us with settings to connect to their manager.

Do we need to install a client software (which IBM seems to provide for free) and on top of that use a Java API? Or do we use JMS on top of the client?
Or if we use JMS, isn't the client needed?

Thanks