HornetQ

HornetQ
Developer(s)	JBoss
Stable release	2.3.0 / April 25, 2013
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	asynchronous messaging
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	http://hornetq.org

HornetQ is an open source asynchronous messaging project from JBoss. It is an example of Message Oriented Middleware. HornetQ is an open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system. During much of its development, the HornetQ code base was developed under the name JBoss Messaging 2.0.

The HornetQ project was the brain-child of Tim Fox, and was launched on 24 August 2009. Fox led the project until HornetQ 8 October 2010, when he stepped down as project lead to pursue other projects. It is currently led by Clebert Suconic with core engineers Andy Taylor, Howard Gao and Jeff Mesnil.

The HornetQ project is licensed using the Apache Software License v 2.0. As of 4-2-2010 HornetQ is the SPECjms2007^[1] record breaker.^[2]

It has the following relevant features:

Supports STOMP protocol for cross language clients
100% JMS compliant
8.2 Million Messages per second with SpecJMS
AIO (over Linux)/NIO (over any OS) based high performance journal.
Clustering for scalability and reliability
Supports Master/Slave architecture for fault tolerance
Supports discovery groups for dynamic node clusters
Core Bridges to connect to other HornetQ servers (over unreliable WAN links)
JMS Bridges to connect to other JMS compatible servers
Diverts to reroute traffic without modifying application code
Paging to support messages which size exceeds the available RAM
Large message support to enable file messaging
XA and JTA transaction support
Application Server integration using the JCA standard (allows MDBs too)
High performance Netty NIO connector over TCP, SSL and Servlet modes (for messaging between firewalls)
JMX based management
Last Value Queues
Filters and wildcard support
Security features integrated with JAAS
Simple XML configuration

References

^ SPECjms2007 "Frequently Asked Questions". Retrieved 2012-06-22. SPECjms2007 is an industry-standard benchmark designed to measure the performance and scalability of JMS-based Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) platforms. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
^ Spring+JBoss, So Happy Together! from Red Hat

External links

[1] SPECjms2007 "Frequently Asked Questions". Retrieved 2012-06-22. SPECjms2007 is an industry-standard benchmark designed to measure the performance and scalability of JMS-based Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) platforms. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

[2] Spring+JBoss, So Happy Together! from Red Hat

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