ActiveMQ
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Categories: Internet and communications
Author: The Apache Software Foundation
Latest version: 5.2.0
Added 2005-05-18Updated 2008-12-08
Open source Message Broker and Enterprise Integration Patterns provider.
Apache ActiveMQ supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with Enterprise Integration Patterns and many features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4.
Features include:
- Supports a variety of Cross Language Clients and Protocols from Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP: OpenWire for clients in Java, C, C++, C#; Stomp support so that clients can be written in C, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, ActionScript/Flash, Smalltalk to talk to ActiveMQ as well as any other popular Message Broker
- Full support for the Enterprise Integration Patterns both in the JMS client and the Message Broker
- Supports advanced features such as Message Groups, Virtual Destinations, Wildcards and Composite Destinations
- Fully supports JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4 with support for transient, persistent, transactional and XA messaging
- Spring Support so that ActiveMQ can be easily embedded into Spring applications and configured using Spring's XML configuration mechanism
- Tested inside popular J2EE servers such as Geronimo, JBoss 4, GlassFish and WebLogic. Includes JCA 1.5 resource adaptors for inbound & outbound messaging so that ActiveMQ should auto-deploy in any J2EE 1.4 compliant server
- Supports pluggable transport protocols such as in-VM, TCP, SSL, NIO, UDP, multicast, JGroups and JXTA transports
- Supports persistence using JDBC along with a journal
- Designed for clustering, client-server, peer based communication
- REST API to provide technology agnostic and language neutral web based API to messaging
- Ajax to support web streaming support to web browsers using pure DHTML, allowing web browsers to be part of the messaging fabric
- CXF and Axis support so that ActiveMQ can be dropped into either of these web service stacks to provide reliable messaging
- Can be used as an in memory JMS provider, ideal for unit testing JMS
Built for Java |
Free or free version available |
Source code provided |