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<chapter>

<title>AMQP (Advanced Message Queueing Protocol</title>


<para>AMQP <ulink url="http://www.amqp.org/" >Advanced
Message Queuing Protocol</ulink> is an open standard designed to
support reliable, high-performance messaging over the Internet.
AMQP can be used for any distributed or business application, and
supports common messaging paradigms like point-to-point, fanout,
publish-subscribe, and request-response.</para>
<para>Apache Qpid implements AMQP, including transaction management,
queuing, clustering, federation, security, management and
multi-platform support.</para>
<para>Apache Qpid implements the latest AMQP specification, providing
transaction management, queuing, distribution, security,
management, clustering, federation and heterogeneous multi-platform
support and a lot more.</para>
<para>Apache Qpid is highly optimized, and <ulink url=
"amqp-compatibility.html">aims to be 100% AMQP Compliant</ulink>.</para>

<section>
<title>Download the AMQP Specifications</title>

<itemizedlist>
<title>AMQP version 0-10</title>
<listitem><para><ulink url="https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp.0-10.pdf?version=1"
>AMQP 0-10 Specification (PDF)</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp.0-10.xml?version=1"
>AMQP 0-10 Protocol Definition XML</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp.0-10.dfd?version=1"
>AMQP 0-10 Protocol Definition DTD</ulink></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>


<itemizedlist>
<title>AMQP version 0-9-1</title>
<listitem><para><ulink url=
"https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-9-1.pdf?version=1"
>AMQP 0-9-1 Specification (PDF)</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url=
"https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-9-1.xml?version=1"
>AMQP 0-9-1 Protocol Documentation (PDF)</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url=
"https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-9-1.dtd?version=1"
>AMQP 0-9-1 Protocol Definitions (XML)</ulink></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>


<itemizedlist>
<title>AMQP version 0-9</title>
<listitem><para><ulink url=
"https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-9.pdf?version=1"
>AMQP 0-9 Specification (PDF)</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url=
"https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-9.xml?version=1"
>AMQP 0-9 Protocol Documentation (PDF)</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url=
"https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-9.dtd?version=1"
>AMQP 0-9 Protocol Definitions (XML)</ulink></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>


<itemizedlist>
<title>AMQP version 0-8</title>
<listitem><para><ulink url=
"https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-8.pdf?version=1"
>AMQP 0-8 Specification (PDF)</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-8.dtd?version=1"
>AMQP 0-8 Protocol Documentation (PDF)</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="https://jira.amqp.org/confluence/download/attachments/720900/amqp0-8.xml?version=1"
>AMQP 0-8 Protocol Definitions (XML)</ulink></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>

</chapter>