Nice to see the new year starting off right. I Noticed this post over at the eaimatrix.com:

A plethora of message queuing products exist in today’s EAI market, all aimed at providing solutions to the problem of application integration. Few can however lay as much claim to fame as ActiveMQ, an open source Message Broker and JMS/Enterprise Integration Patterns provider which is licensed, developed and distributed under the open source Apache emblem. ActiveMQ provides support for Cross Language Client and Protocols as well as a powerful messaging broker which is supported in Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP.

Read the full article by Ade Ayonrinde.

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Late notice.. but James and I are doing an ActiveMQ Webinar in an hour and half. Sign up for it and let us know what you thought about it.

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You have to checkout this great InfoQ Article on ActiveMessaging. It’s an outstanding writeup on how to use ActiveMQ from Rails. I think this is just another sign that STOMP is gain momentum.

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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.

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Checkout this server side thread. Folks are starting to think about using JavaScript on the browser to access an “Internet Messaging Bus”. They want to have thing like:

• Guaranteed delivery
• Once and only once deliveryGuaranteed
• order of deliveryServer
• push and client pullFunny

thing is that most of all that is available today with ActiveMQ! And to get really great performance, use ActiveMQ with Jetty! ActiveMQ comes with a simple little JavaScript API that allows you to access the ActiveMQ message bus using Comet style http polling. And ActiveMQ provides you all the above guarantees like all good message brokers.

Other news on this front is all the Ajax tool kits are starting to look at being able to inter-operate. At a minimum, a page with multiple tool kits will need to share it’s connections back to the server. So they will need to share an API to broker requests back to the server. I’ll keep an eye out for this API because it sounds like something that could be easily tied into ActiveMQ.

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