BOSTON--()--Members of the OASIS international open standards consortium have approved version 1.0 of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) as an OASIS Standard. AMQP is a wire-level messaging protocol that offers organizations an efficient, reliable approach to passing real-time data and business transactions with confidence. AMQP provides a platform-agnostic method for ensuring information is safely transported between applications, among organizations, within mobile infrastructures, and across the Cloud.
“OASIS AMQP 1.0 delivers a protocol which is immediately useful. The AMQP Member Section will continue to advance standards-based interoperability”
"The advancement of AMQP 1.0 as an OASIS Standard heralds a new era of standards-based interoperability for message-oriented middleware," said Ram Jeyaraman of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, co-chair of the OASIS AMQP Technical Committee. "AMQP 1.0 enables interoperability between compliant brokers and simplifies interactions between clients and brokers independent of the language or the platform used. Further, as an inherently efficient application layer binary protocol, AMQP 1.0 offers new possibilities in messaging that scale from the client to the cloud."
AMQP supports common interaction patterns: one way, request/response, publish/subscribe, transactions, and store-and-forward. It does this with flow-control, multiplexing, security, recovery and a portable data representation that enables message filtering. AMQP is capable of being used in both point-to-point and hub-and-spoke (broker-based) topologies.
"AMQP 1.0's support of the different fundamental message patterns makes it the ideal choice as a transport protocol between multi-vendor applications both within the Cloud and over the Internet," says Angus Telfer of INETCO, co-chair of the OASIS AMQP Technical Committee. "By avoiding proprietary technologies, AMQP can lower the cost of enterprise application integration by encouraging a full ecosystem of compatible message-oriented products, including both those delivering application value and those used to ensure higher performance, more reliable systems, i.e., application performance monitoring, network monitoring tools, etc."
AMQP is used in financial front office trading, ocean observation, transportation, smart grid, computer-generated animation, and online gaming. Many operating systems include AMQP implementations, and many application frameworks are AMQP-aware. There are Cloud-hosted offerings of AMQP, and it is embedded in virtualization infrastructure.
"OASIS AMQP 1.0 delivers a protocol which is immediately useful. The AMQP Member Section will continue to advance standards-based interoperability," said John O'Hara and Matthew Arrott, co-chairs of the OASIS AMQP Member Section.
Participation in the OASIS AMQP Technical Committee is open to all interested parties. Archives of the Committees’ work are accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS invites public review and comment.
Support for AMQP 1.0
Axway
"The
OASIS AMQP Technical Committee is to be congratulated on its open
standardization of AMQP version 1.0 as an OASIS specification; the
protocols, wire formats and framing that have been defined for AMQP
exchanges and queues should promote enhanced interoperability for AMQP
brokers. AMQP implementations will add a valuable tool for the creation
of interoperable internal and external business interaction networks."
--
Dale Moberg, Chief Architect
Kaazing
"As
the enablers of the Living Web and HTML5 WebSocket technology, everyone
at Kaazing is
excited to support OASIS' ongoing efforts to proliferate open standards
and create a superior user web experience. Standardizing AMQP and
combining it with WebSocket technology is an excellent strategy when
building an event driven architecture. Working alongside OASIS, Kaazing
has developed a Living Web in order to create the best possible web
experience for users, reduce complexity, and increase interoperability."
-- John
Fallows, CTO and Co-Founder, Kaazing
Microsoft
"Microsoft
congratulates the AMQP community on approval of AMQP version 1.0 as an
OASIS Standard. As an open and interoperable messaging protocol that can
scale from mobile clients to the cloud, AMQP has benefited from the
participation of technical experts from around the world, and the
achievement of this important milestone will lead to continued growth in
the AMQP ecosystem. We look forward to working with the community to
promote AMQP-based interoperability and innovation."
--
Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, Microsoft's Server and Tools
Business division
Red
Hat
"Red Hat is pleased to see the hard work of the
Technical Committee come to fruition. We are a founding member of the
AMQP Technical Committee and have been active on the specification since
the early days. AMQP 1.0 represents a significant improvement in the
messaging arena and we expect to continue to support it in our products
to best customer needs."
-- Mark Little, Vice President,
Middleware Engineering
Software
AG
"A platform independent and vendor neutral protocol like
AMQP removes hurdles in advancing interoperability of message-oriented
middleware technologies. As a founding sponsor member of the AMQP TC and
the related AMQP Steering Committee, Software AG is very pleased to see
AMQP 1.0 transition to an OASIS Standard. Software AG supports numerous
standards in its product suite, and AMQP has been an important addition
to webMethods Nirvana, increasing interoperability and providing
advanced messaging capabilities to our customers."
--
Prasad Yendluri, VP & Deputy CTO
VMware
"AMQP
1.0 is a novel addition to the growing toolkit of open protocols for
transporting data between systems and virtualized application delivery.
Standard transports enable lower cost business integration and
messaging. AMQP 1.0 admits many use cases by defining safe message
transfer between peers, without the constraint of a message broker
model. With its open license, we anticipate both AMQP's wide adoption by
messaging servers, and its use as a new API for database and integration
products."
--Alexis Richardson, Senior Director
Additional information:
OASIS AMQP Technical Committee:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/amqp/
AMQP Member Section site:
http://www.amqp.org
About OASIS:
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. OASIS promotes industry consensus and produces worldwide standards for Cloud computing, business transactions, security, Web services, Smart Grid, content management, and other applications. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology. OASIS members broadly represent the marketplace of public and private sector technology leaders, users and influencers. The consortium has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries: http://www.oasis-open.org.



