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

[Brad Clements]

Pieter Hintjens wrote:
>
> 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.)
>   
Ouch. So to transfer files through OpenAMQ, I'll just stuff their 
contents into a single gigantic "basic" message type!?

Or has the WG members decided that file transfer should be entirely out 
of band and are backing away from supporting the concept of "really 
large message" transfer within the amqp spec?
>
> Hope this helps.
>   
yes, very helpful to know, thank you.


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