ActiveMQ

Popular and widely used messaging broker with moderate performance, wide protocol support written in Java together with a full Java Message Service (JMS) client. It provides "Enterprise Features" which in this case means fostering the communication from more than one client or server.

First released2004
Developed byApache Software Foundation
Latest stable version5
Open-sourceYes
Used byLingo, Eclipse, Mule, Hermes

Interesting facts

One of the most popular message brokers. In many cases it's "the" messaging server when using JMS.

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