Sean K, Looks like you already got a response from James :) But here's at least one discussion that took place a while ago about this very subject:
http://www.jroller.com/RickHigh/entry/amqp_versus_jms On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Sean K <sk92...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone responded to this article written by Mark Richards about > AMQP and JMS (includes ActiveMQ)? > > Specifically: > > > "This means that message clients using AMQP are completely agnostic as > to which AMQP clients API or > AMQP message broker you are using." -- I remember hearing something > like that about Java -- Write once, run everywhere -- which was a lie. > > Or, "While it is true vendors such as SonicMQ, ActiveMQ, and HornetQ > provide some level of cross platform interoperability, they do so > through proprietary protocols, APIs, and client libraries. ..." My > thought is -- is this really true? I thought all of ActiveMQ is open > source via Apache, thus it should be another standard that should be a > louder standard than AMQP. > > Last, how different is openwire protocol from the AMQP protocol? > > Can anyone respond to these issues, or point me to articles that > address these from the ActiveMQ point of view? > -- *Christian Posta* http://www.christianposta.com/blog twitter: @christianposta