layout: default_md title: Features Overview title-class: page-title-activemq5 type: activemq5

Features > Features Overview

  • Supports a variety of Cross Language Clients and Protocols from Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP
    • OpenWire for high performance clients in Java, C, C++, C#
    • Stomp support so that clients can be written easily in C, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, ActionScript/Flash, Smalltalk to talk to ActiveMQ as well as any other popular Message Broker
    • AMQP v1.0 support
    • MQTT v3.1 support allowing for connections in an IoT environment.
  • full support for the Enterprise Integration Patterns both in the JMS client and the Message Broker
  • Supports many advanced features such as Message Groups, Virtual Destinations, Wildcards and Composite Destinations
  • Fully supports JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4 with support for transient, persistent, transactional and XA messaging
  • Spring Support so that ActiveMQ can be easily embedded into Spring applications and configured using Spring's XML configuration mechanism
  • Tested inside popular J2EE servers such as TomEE, Geronimo, JBoss, GlassFish and WebLogic
    • Includes JCA 1.5 resource adaptors for inbound & outbound messaging so that ActiveMQ should auto-deploy in any J2EE 1.4 compliant server
  • Supports pluggable transport protocols such as in-VM, TCP, SSL, NIO, UDP, multicast, JGroups and JXTA transports
  • Supports very fast persistence using JDBC along with a high performance journal
  • Designed for high performance clustering, client-server, peer based communication
  • REST API to provide technology agnostic and language neutral web based API to messaging
  • Ajax to support web streaming support to web browsers using pure DHTML, allowing web browsers to be part of the messaging fabric
  • CXF and Axis Support so that ActiveMQ can be easily dropped into either of these web service stacks to provide reliable messaging
  • Can be used as an in memory JMS provider, ideal for unit testing JMS