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.

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.

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

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:

A few days ago the AMQP spec was announced on TSS. I quickly downloaded the spec and I have some initial impressions.