| Qpid Proton - AMQP messaging toolkit |
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| [Qpid Proton](https://qpid.apache.org/proton) is a high-performance, lightweight |
| messaging library. It can be used in the widest range of messaging applications, |
| including brokers, client libraries, routers, bridges, proxies, and more. |
| Proton makes it trivial to integrate with the AMQP 1.0 ecosystem from any |
| platform, environment, or language. |
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| Features |
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| - A flexible and capable reactive messaging API |
| - Full control of AMQP 1.0 protocol semantics |
| - Portable C implementation with bindings to popular languages |
| - Peer-to-peer and brokered messaging |
| - Secure communication via SSL/TLS and SASL |
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| Universal - Proton is designed to scale both up and down. Equally suitable for |
| simple clients or high-powered servers, it can be deployed in simple |
| peer-to-peer configurations or as part of a global federated messaging network. |
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| Embeddable - Proton is carefully written to be portable and cross platform. It |
| has minimal dependencies, and it is architected to be usable with any threading |
| model, as well as with non-threaded applications. These features make it |
| uniquely suited for embedding messaging capabilities into existing software. |
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| Standard - Built around the AMQP 1.0 messaging standard, Proton is not only |
| ideal for building out your own messaging applications but also for connecting |
| them to the broader ecosystem of AMQP 1.0-based messaging applications. |
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| Please see [https://qpid.apache.org/proton](https://qpid.apache.org/proton) |
| for more information. |
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| Getting Started |
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| See the included [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) file for build and install |
| instructions and the [developers.md](docs/developers.md) file for |
| information on how to modify and test the library code itself. |
