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data/
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docs/diagrams/
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-About ActiveMQ
-==============
-
-What is ActiveMQ?
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-Getting Started
-===============
-
-This chapter discusses the architecture behind clustering
-
-Discovery
-=========
-
-Discovery is done in 2 steps, initial discovery where the server locates
-another node in the cluster and topology discovery where the node finds
-out about all other nodes in the cluster
-
-Initial Discovery
------------------
-
-blah blah blah, UDP, static connectors etc etc
-
-Topology Discovery
-------------------
-
-blah blah blah, topology etc
-
-![ActiveMQ Artemis topology-update.jpg](images/topology-update.jpg)
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