AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) 1.0 is an efficient, reliable, wire level messaging protocol supporting common middleware messaging interaction patterns: messaging, request/response, publish/subscribe, transactions, and store and forward. It allows middleware applications to communicate with each other without having to have the same infrastructure on both ends (i.e. it provides vendor neutral communications). Like all communication protocols, AMQP describes the message syntax and sequence for performing their different assigned tasks. AMQP is capable of being used in both synchronous (point-to-point) and asynchronous (broker based) architectures and is independent of any particular broker architecture. AMQP is of special importance in providing enterprise and cloud messaging services.
Reliance on private network infrastructures and/or proprietary messaging protocols is no longer able to meet the reliability and agility needed in the emergent "Business Social Enterprise" of today's global market place. What is required is an information exchange protocol that directly addresses these requirements and elevates business interactions above the technical details of managing byte stream flows to a level where business interactions are based on the unit of work, the message.
AMQP 1.0 offers organizations an easier, more secure approach to passing real-time data streams and business transactions. The goal of AMQP is to ensure information is safely and efficiently transported between applications, among organizations, across distributed cloud computing environments, and within mobile infrastructures. AMQP avoids proprietary technologies, offering the potential to lower the cost of enterprise middleware software integrations through open interoperability. By enabling a commoditized, multi-vendor ecosystem, AMQP seeks to create opportunities for transforming the way business is done in the Cloud and over the Internet.
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The prose specification document and related files are available here. Please note that AMQP is a multi-part specification. The HTML document provides the overview and links to the other parts of the Candidate OASIS Standard. The PDF document is a complete copy containing all parts of the Candidate OASIS Standard:
XML (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/amqp/core/v1.0/cos01/amqp-core-overview-v1.0-cos01.xml
HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/amqp/core/v1.0/cos01/amqp-core-overview-v1.0-cos01.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/amqp/core/v1.0/cos01/amqp-core-complete-v1.0-cos01.pdf
ZIP distribution file (complete):
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/amqp/core/v1.0/cos01/amqp-core-cos01.zip
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[1] OASIS Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP) TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/amqp/ |
