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  <bookinfo>
    <title>Apache ActiveMQ - User Guide</title>
    <releaseinfo>&version;</releaseinfo>

    <authorgroup>
      <author>
        <firstname>James</firstname>
        <surname>Strachan</surname>
      </author>

      <author>
        <firstname>Brian</firstname>
        <surname>McCallister</surname>
      </author>
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  <toc></toc>

  <chapter id="introduction">
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para></para>

    <para><ulink url="http://activemq.apache.org/">Apache ActiveMQ</ulink> is
    the most popular and powerful open source Message Broker available today.
    Its hosted at Apache and is distributed under the Apache Software License
    (2.0).</para>

    <para>ActiveMQ supports different <ulink
    url="http://activemq.apache.org/cross-language-clients.html">cross
    language clients</ulink> from many different languages such as Java, C# /
    .Net, C, C++, Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP together with different protocols
    like OpenWire, Stomp, REST, Ajax/Cometd, XMPP. ActiveMQ also provides a
    whole raft of powerful <ulink
    url="http://activemq.apache.org/features.html">features</ulink> like
    Message Groups, Exclusive Queues, Master/Slave, Networks of Brokers and so
    forth.</para>

    <section>
      <title>Architecture</title>

      <para>Like most Message Orientated Middleware (<acronym>MOM</acronym>)
      providers ActiveMQ is based on the idea of one or more <emphasis>Message
      Brokers</emphasis> running on the network which act as a message router
      and optional persistence store, then <emphasis>Clients</emphasis>
      connect to one or more Message Broker.</para>
    </section>
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="installation">
    <title>Installing Apache ActiveMQ</title>

    <para>The first thing you need to do is install Apache ActiveMQ from a
    binary distribution.</para>

    <para></para>
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="running-broker">
    <title>Running a Broker</title>

    <para>The most typical deployment of Apache ActiveMQ is for brokers to be
    run on the network as a stand alone processes then messaging clients
    connect to one or more brokers. So we will describe how to go about
    running brokers, then in the <link linkend="java-client">next
    chapter</link> we will describe how to connect to a broker from a
    client.</para>

    <para></para>
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="java-client">
    <title>Using the Java Client</title>

    <para>Apache ActiveMQ fully supports the JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4
    specifications so feel free to follow any documentation you have on JMS or
    J2EE for more background.</para>

    <para></para>
  </chapter>
</book>