[ Thanks to AlexGr
for this link. ]
“While ordinary e-mail settled on standards long ago,
its high-end alter ego known as “message oriented
middleware” – aka MOM – is still wandering around
in the wilderness of proprietary isolation. MOM is what mission
critical enterprise apps use to send messages to each other,
usually in the same asynchronous style as e-mail… To be sure,
these app-to-app messages have much greater business value than
your typical person-to-person office missive, and therefore require
VIP treatment. That’s why MOMs like IBM’s WebSphere
MQ… and Tibco’s Rendezvous pack all kinds of fancy features
to guarantee that a message will actually be delivered and that it
will only be delivered once.“…Some big-time MOM users have finally decided they
aren’t going to take “no” for an answer anymore,
and have banded together with some ambitious open source vendors to
put together a new and totally open standard for business messaging
called AMQP, short for “Advanced Message Queuing
Protocol”.”