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| <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="Java-Broker-Introduction"> |
| <title>Introduction</title> |
| <para>The Apache Qpid Broker for Java is a powerful open-source message broker that implements all versions of the |
| <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.amqp.org"> Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)</link>. The Apache Qpid Broker for Java |
| is actually one of two message brokers provided by the <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://qpid.apache.org">Apache Qpid project</link>: Broker for Java and the C++ |
| Broker.</para> |
| <para>This document relates to the Apache Qpid Broker for Java. The <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="${qpidCppBook}">C++ Broker is |
| described separately</link>.</para> |
| <para><emphasis>Headline features</emphasis></para> |
| <itemizedlist mark="circle"> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>100% Java implementation - runs on any platform supporting Java 1.7 or higher</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Messaging clients support in Java, C++, Python.</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>JMS 1.1 compliance (Java client).</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Persistent and non-persistent (transient) message support</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Supports for all common messaging patterns (point-to-point, publish/subscribe, fan-out |
| etc).</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Transaction support including XA<footnote> |
| <para>XA provided when using AMQP 0-10</para> |
| </footnote></para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Supports for all versions of the AMQP protocol</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Automatic message translation, allowing clients using different AMQP versions to communicate with each other.</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Pluggable authentication architecture with out-of-the-box support for Kerberos, LDAP, |
| External, OAuth2, and file-based authentication mechanisms.</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Support for message compression</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Client support for end to end message encryption</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Pluggable storage architecture with implementations including <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://db.apache.org/derby/">Apache Derby</link>, <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="${oracleBdbProductOverviewUrl}">Oracle BDB JE</link><footnote> |
| <para>Oracle BDB JE must be downloaded separately.</para> |
| </footnote>, and External Database</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Web based management interface and programmatic management interfaces via REST.</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>SSL support</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>High availability (HA) support.<footnote> |
| <para>HA currently only available to users of the optional BDB JE HA based message store.</para> |
| </footnote></para> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| </chapter> |