<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><p>There are some similarities between the two; they both support JMS 1.1 and run inside <link><page ri:content-title="JBoss Integration"></page><link-body>JBoss 4.x</link-body></link>.</p>

<p>However ActiveMQ does offer some specific differences and advantages (at least from our perspective)</p>

<ul><li>ActiveMQ works great in any JVM not just inside the JBoss application server</li><li>ActiveMQ comes complete with a large number of <link><page ri:content-title="Cross Language Clients"></page></link></li><li>ActiveMQ supports many different <link><page ri:content-title="Protocols"></page></link> such as <link><page ri:content-title="Ajax"></page></link>, <link><page ri:content-title="REST"></page></link>, <link><page ri:content-title="Stomp"></page></link>, <link><page ri:content-title="OpenWire"></page></link>, <link><page ri:content-title="XMPP"></page></link></li><li>ActiveMQ supports a large number of advanced features like <link><page ri:content-title="Message Groups"></page></link>, <link><page ri:content-title="Exclusive Consumer"></page></link>, <link><page ri:content-title="Composite Destinations"></page></link>, <link><page ri:content-title="Advisory Message"></page></link> support</li><li>ActiveMQ supports reliable connections with <link><page ri:content-title="Configuring Transports"></page><link-body>configurable</link-body></link> automatic reconnection</li><li>ActiveMQ has great <link><page ri:content-title="Spring Support"></page></link></li><li>ActiveMQ supports distributed destinations across networks</li><li>ActiveMQ is very fast; often 10x faster than JBossMQ.</li></ul>


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