Advanced Message Queuing Protocol Features

The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard protocol for passing business messages between applications or organizations.

AMQP connects across:

• Organizations
• Platforms
• Time
• Space

AMQP has following features:

• Ubiquity
  • Easy to (a) use, (b) implement, and (c) extend
  • Clear and unambiguous core functionality for business message routing and delivery within Internet infrastructure
  • Low barrier to understand, use and implement
• Safety
  • Infrastructure for a secure and trusted global transaction network
    • Tamper proof business messages
    • Independent durable message for connected receivers
    • Resilient message delivery for technical failure
  • Supports financial transactions of business requirements
  • Impossible for spam injection
• Fidelity
  • Well-stated message queuing and delivery semantics covering
  • Well-stated ordering semantics always having a sender and an observer
  • Well-stated reliable exception handling
• Unity
  • Any AMQP client can initiate communication to any AMQP broker over TCP/IP
  • Provides the core set of messaging patterns
    • Asynchronous directed messaging
    • Request/reply
    • Publish/subscribe
    • Store
    • Forward
  • Negotiable transport protocols (e.g. SCTP, UDP/Multicast) with any AMQP broker
  • Supports
    • Hub & Spoke messaging topology
    • Hub-to-Hub messaging
    • Peer-to-Peer messaging
• Interoperability
  • Multiple stable and interpolating broker implementations
  • Stable core (client-broker) wire protocol
  • Layered architecture
  • Backward compatibility
• Manageability
  • Binary WIRE protocol to be ubiquitous, fast and embedded
  • Scalable
  • Global addressing standardizing end-to-end delivery
  • Decentralized
  • Supports routing and relay management

References:

• http://www.amqp.org/about/what
• http://www.amqp.org/product/features