[openamq-dev] Spec conformance chart? Shopping for a new broker

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Brad Clements <bkc at murkworks.com> wrote:

>  It would be helfpul for me to have some kind of "spec conformance" chart
>  for OpenAMQ. Something like http://www.rabbitmq.com/compatibility.html
>  but doesn't have to be so fancy.

In one sentence: fast transient messaging, and everything that needs.
No transactions, no acknowlegements, no persistence, no durability.
We started on implementing File and Stream but these were aggressively
targeted for removal by certain members of the AMQP WG, early on,
making it unsafe to try to use them.  (We spent about a year fighting
that but gave up, since no-one else in the AMQP WG wanted those
content classes, or would even support the concept of content classes.
 Thus you will see that the 0-10 protocol has merged the File transfer
semantics into the main content class... something I find horrid.)

OpenAMQ implements the transient messaging core of AMQP/0.9 minus the
WIP stuff, which is also... horrid.

The future road map for OpenAMQ is more speed, throughput, and better
latency, and smarter APIs that implement security and reliability
using the vision I sketched in 2006 here:
http://wiki.amqp.org/forum/t-1776/amqp-as-tcp-ip.

Oh, and we'll be moving to the upgraded/cleaned-up release of AMQP/0.9
when it's ready, together with most of the rest of the AMQP WG.

iMatix will not implement 0-10 nor 0-11 unless it is significantly
cleaner and simpler than the current proposal, or someone throws a lot
of money at us to get us to do it.

Hope this helps.

-Pieter


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