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Apache ActiveMQ is an open source

Open source

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(Apache 2.0 licensed) message broker

Message broker

Message broker is an intermediary program which translates the language of a system from one internationally recognized language to another by way of a telecommunications medium.-Pattern:...

which fully implements the Java Message Service

Java Message Service

The Java Message Service API is a Java Message Oriented Middleware API for sending messages between two or more clients. JMS is a part of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition, and is defined by a specification developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 914...

1.1 (JMS). It provides "Enterprise Features" like clustering, multiple message stores, and ability to use any database

Database

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as a JMS persistence

Persistence (computer science)

Persistence in computer science refers to the characteristic of state that outlives the process that created it. Without this capability, state would only exist in RAM, and would be lost when this RAM loses power, such as a computer shutdown....

provider besides VM

Virtual memory

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, cache

Cache

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, and journal

Journal (computing)

In computer storage, a journal is a chronological record of data processing operations that may be used to construct or reinstate an historical or alternative version of a computer system or computer file....

persistency.

Apart from Java, ActiveMQ can be also used from .NET

.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

, C

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

/C++

C++

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or Delphi

Object Pascal

Object Pascal refers to a branch of object-oriented derivatives of Pascal, mostly known as the primary programming language of Embarcadero Delphi.-Early history at Apple:...

or from scripting languages like Perl

Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

, Python

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

, PHP

PHP

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and Ruby

Ruby (programming language)

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via various "Cross Language Clients" together with connecting to many protocols and platforms. These include several standard wire-level protocols, plus their own protocol called OpenWire.

ActiveMQ is used in enterprise service bus

Enterprise service bus

An enterprise service bus is a software architecture model used for designing and implementing the interaction and communication between mutually interacting software applications in Service Oriented Architecture...

implementations such as Apache ServiceMix

Apache ServiceMix

Apache ServiceMix is an enterprise-class open-source distributed enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture . It was built from the ground up on the semantics and APIs of the Java Business Integration specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache License...

, Apache Camel

Apache Camel

Apache Camel is a rule-based routing and mediation engine which provides a Java object-based implementation of the Enterprise Integration Patterns using an API to configure routing and mediation rules...

, and Mule

Mule (software)

Mule is a lightweight enterprise service bus and integration framework. It can handle services and applications using disparate transport and messaging technologies...

.

ActiveMQ is often used with Apache ServiceMix

Apache ServiceMix

, Apache Camel

Apache Camel

and Apache CXF

Apache CXF

Apache CXF is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework. It originated as the combination of two open-source projects: Celtix developed by IONA Technologies and XFire developed by a team hosted at Codehaus. These two projects were combined by people working together at the Apache...

in SOA

Service-oriented architecture

In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...

infrastructure projects.

Coinciding with the release of Apache ActiveMQ 5.3, the world's first results for the SPECjms2007 industry standard benchmark were announced. Four results were submitted to the SPEC

Spec

-Specification:* Specification , an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service** "Spec sheet" or datasheet used to describe something technical...

and accepted for publication. The results cover different topologies to analyze the scalability of Apache ActiveMQ in two dimensions.

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