IBM MQ Badge developer challenge

Mavenized and dockerized the IBM MQ Badge developer challenge sources from the IBM Developer Essentials course. This project contains also the required code updates from the challenge in order to make the ticket reseller application work.

Running the application using Docker Compose

To build the services, run docker-compose build in the repository’s root directory. Once the services are built, you can start the whole application using docker-compose up.

The docker-compose contains the following services:

Service	Description
Event booking service	When tickets become available for sale, the service generates a reseller message to notify its subscribers
Reseller application	Subscribes to the newTickets topic. On receiving a publication, puts the request message to a purchase (request) queue

Running single services using Docker

You can run the services in a Docker environment using the scripts provided in the respective service directory.

To build and run the services, run the following commands:

• ./ticket-generator/build.sh && ./ticket-generator/run.sh

• ./ticket-reseller/build.sh && ./ticket-reseller/run.sh