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<title>About HornetQ</title>
<para>What is HornetQ?</para>
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<para>HornetQ is an open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high
performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.</para>
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<para>For answers to more questions about what HornetQ is and what it isn't please visit
the <ulink url="http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/HornetQGeneralFAQs">FAQs wiki
page</ulink>.</para>
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</itemizedlist>
<para>Why use HornetQ? Here are just a few of the reasons:</para>
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<para>100% open source software. HornetQ is licenced using the Apache Software License v2.0
to minimise barriers to adoption.</para>
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<listitem>
<para>HornetQ is designed with usability in mind.</para>
</listitem>
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<para>Written in Java. Runs on any platform with a Java 6+ runtime, that's everything
from Windows desktops to IBM mainframes.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Amazing performance. Our class beating high performance journal provides persistent
messaging performance at rates normally seen for non persistent messaging, our non
persistent messaging performance rocks the boat too.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Full feature set. All the features you'd expect in any serious messaging system,
and others you won't find anywhere else.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Elegant, clean-cut design with minimal third party dependencies. Run HornetQ
stand-alone, run it in integrated in your favourite JEE application server, or run
it embedded inside your own product. It's up to you.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Seamless high availability. We provide a HA solution with automatic client
failover so you can guarantee zero message loss or duplication in event of server
failure.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Hugely flexible clustering. Create clusters of servers that know how to load
balance messages. Link geographically distributed clusters over unreliable
connections to form a global network. Configure routing of messages in a highly
flexible way.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>For a full list of features, please see the <ulink
url="http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/HornetQFeatures">features wiki
page</ulink> .</para>
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