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