StompConnect - Finally, you can talk nativley to any JMS server from any language.

OMG, James is at it again! He whipped up the new StompConnect project at a blink of an eye. Firstly, let me introduce you to Stomp. Stomp was designed to be a super simple wire protocol for clients to talk to Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), like ActiveMQ. Since the protocol is text based and simple to implement, multiple language clients and servers were created with little effort.

And now thanks StompConnect, every JMS compliant MOM in existence (which is like almost all of them) can now be talked to using Stomp! This is a huge deal since the wire protocol for most JMS servers is proprietary and and getting a pure language client for any given mom was either difficult or impossible!

ActiveMQ Updates

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted but several exiting events have been happing in the ActiveMQ arena.

• Apache ActiveMQ has GRADUATED out of the incubator and is an official Apache project!
• The ActiveMQ website has moved to http://activemq.apache.org and has received a new face lift thanks to yours truly.
• ActiveMQ 5.0 development is making huge progress and Rob has put up an excellent post outlining the upcoming features in the next version of ActiveMQ.
  

If you want to get a preview of those features, get the latest from the ActiveMQ trunk and kick it around. Feedback would be appreciated.