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<chapter id="Java-Broker-Introduction">
  <title>Introduction</title>
  <para>The Java Broker is a powerful open-source message broker that implements all versions of the
      <ulink url="http://www.amqp.org"> Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)</ulink>. The Java
    Broker is actually one of two message brokers provided by the <ulink
      url="http://qpid.apache.org">Apache Qpid project</ulink>: the Java Broker and the C++
    Broker.</para>
  <para>This document relates to the Java Broker. The <ulink url="&qpidCppBook;">C++ Broker is
    described separately</ulink>.</para>
  <para><emphasis>Headline features</emphasis></para>
  <itemizedlist mark="circle">
    <listitem>
      <para>100% Java implementation - runs on any platform supporting Java 1.6 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, and file-based authentication mechanisms.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Pluggable message store architecture with implementations based on <ulink
          url="http://db.apache.org/derby/">Apache Derby</ulink>, <ulink
          url="&oracleBdbProductOverviewUrl;">Oracle BDB JE</ulink><footnote>
          <para>Oracle BDB JE must be downloaded separately.</para>
        </footnote>, and Memory Store</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Web based management interface and programmatic management interfaces  via REST and JMX
        APIs.</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>