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About ActiveMQ
What is ActiveMQ?
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ActiveMQ is an open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.
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For answers to more questions about what ActiveMQ is and what it isn't please visit the FAQs wiki page.
Why use ActiveMQ? Here are just a few of the reasons:
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100% open source software. ActiveMQ is licenced using the Apache Software License v2.0 to minimise barriers to adoption.
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ActiveMQ is designed with usability in mind.
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Written in Java. Runs on any platform with a Java 6+ runtime, that's everything from Windows desktops to IBM mainframes.
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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.
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Full feature set. All the features you'd expect in any serious messaging system, and others you won't find anywhere else.
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Elegant, clean-cut design with minimal third party dependencies. Run ActiveMQ 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.
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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.
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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.
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For a full list of features, please see the features wiki page .