Apache Qpid: Open Source AMQP Messaging
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.
AMQP Messaging Servers
Qpid provides two AMQP messaging servers:
- C++ - high performance, low latency, and RDMA support.
- Java - runs on any Java platform
AMQP Client APIs: C++, Java, JMS, Ruby, Python, and C#
Qpid provides AMQP Client APIs for the following languages:
- C++
- C# .NET, using WCF
- Ruby
- Python
- Java JMS, fully conformant with Java CTS1.1
Operating Systems and Platforms:
The Qpid C++ broker runs on the following operating systems:
- Linux systems
- Unix systems
- Open Solaris (coming soon)
The Qpid Java broker runs on:
- Any Java platform
Qpid clients can be run on the following operating systems and platforms:
- Linux
- Windows
- .NET
- Any Java platform
- Open Solaris (coming soon)
Getting Started
- Download Qpid here: download page
- Follow these instructions to get started fast: Getting Started
- If you need help, mail the lists
Getting Help
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.
Getting Involved
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...
Roadmap
For details on releases, a summary of what is in each release can be found here RoadMap