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What is AMQP ?
AMQP Specification Download
Enterprise Messaging systems let programs communicate by exchanging messages, much as people communicate by exchanging email. Unlike email, enterprise messaging systems provide guaranteed delivery, speed, security, and freedom from spam. Until recently, there was no open standard for Enterprise Messaging systems, so programmers either wrote their own, or used expensive proprietary systems.
AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol is the first open standard for Enterprise Messaging. It is designed to support messaging for just about any distributed or business application. Routing can be configured flexibly, easily supporting common messaging paradigms like point-to-point, fanout, publish-subscribe, and request-response.
Apache Qpid implements the latest AMQP specification, providing transaction management, queuing, distribution, security, management, clustering, federation and heterogeneous multi-platform support and a lot more. And Apache Qpid is extremely fast. Apache Qpid aims to be 100% AMQP Compliant.
Qpid provides two AMQP messaging brokers:
Both AMQP messaging brokers support clients in multiple languages, as long as the messaging client and the messaging broker use the same version of AMQP. See Download to see which messaging clients work with each broker.
Qpid provides AMQP Client APIs for the following languages:
The Qpid C++ broker runs on the following operating systems:
The Qpid Java broker runs on:
Qpid clients can be run on the following operating systems and platforms:
If you have a question about any aspect of Qpid or need help getting up and running please send an email to one of our mailing lists.
We welcome contributions to Qpid. Mail us on one of our lists if you want to contribute to the project, have questions on using it or just want to get our thoughts on a topic...
For details on releases, a summary of what is in each release can be found here roadmap
