Components
The Qpid project offers two kinds of components, messaging APIs for building AMQP applications, and messaging server for deploying AMQP networks. You can use them together to build robust distributed applications.
Messaging APIs give your application a tool for efficient, high-level interprocess communication.
Qpid offers various messaging APIs. Qpid Proton is a reactive API with full-spectrum AMQP control. In addition to being a messaging API, Qpid Proton is used by other Qpid components to implement AMQP 1.0 protocol support. Qpid JMS is an AMQP-fluent implementation of the widely used Java Message Service API.
The term "client" is often used to refer to messaging APIs, but some messaging APIs, such as Qpid Proton, can be used to implement any kind of messaging component, including clients, servers, bridges, and proxies.
Messaging servers are message-transfer intermediaries that provide additional behaviors such as store-and-forward for improved reliability.
Qpid Broker-J is a full-featured message-oriented middleware broker, offering specialized queueing behaviors, message persistence, and manageability.
Messaging APIs
- Qpid Proton - A toolkit allowing any application to speak AMQP
- Qpid JMS - An AMQP-fluent Java Message Service implementation
Messaging servers
- Broker-J - A pure-Java AMQP message broker
Messaging tools
- Qpid Interop Test - An AMQP 1.0 interoperability test suite
Compatibility
| Component | Languages | Platforms | AMQP versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broker-J | - | JVM | 1.0, 0-10, 0-9-1, 0-9, 0-8 |
| Qpid JMS | Java | JVM | 1.0 |
| Qpid Proton | C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby | JVM, Linux, Windows | 1.0 |
| Qpid Interop Test | - | Linux | 1.0 |
Any Qpid components that share an AMQP version can interoperate. For instance, Broker-J is implemented in Java, but can communicate with C++ clients for communication.
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