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!