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Microsoft Embraces AMQP Open Middleware Standard
AlexGr writes to tell us that Microsoft apparently has plans to embrace a little known messaging standard called AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). Red Hat, a founding member of the AMQP working group, was very excited about the news and wrote to welcome Microsoft to the party. "Suffice it is to say that AMQP is to high-value, reliable business messaging what SMTP is to e-mail. The proprietary message oriented middleware (MOM) products on the market today like IBM's MQ or Tibco's Rendezvous fulfill the same function as AMQP. But they operate exclusively in single-vendor fashion and utterly fail to interoperate with each other. They are also — perhaps not by coincidence — burdensomely expensive. As a result their use is mostly limited to wealthy organizations such as Wall Street banks (at least the ones who are still in business) that need to exchange huge volumes of business messages very reliably and very quickly. But AMQP's supporters feel the market for such reliable messaging could be much larger if a less expensive and truly open solution became available."
Hmm.. Microsoft Embracing a new technology... I wonder what their two next steps are.
I try to dissuade the use of JMS (Java Message Service) and use XMPP instead.
Why? JMS is just an API. This is sort of like protesting against POSIX or something. JMS implementations can be open source, commercial, free, expensive, whatever. I'm not sure I see your point, especially since messaging is not a core part of your app, and any sizable business will have an investment in a messaging platform already, in the form of tools, monitoring, expertise, etc.
Is this more of a competitor to the JMS spec, since it "reliable"? (whatever that means)
If you don't know what reliable messaging is, maybe you shouldn't be offering your advice?