Open Message Queue (OpenMQ or Open MQ) is an

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message-oriented middleware Message-oriented middleware (MOM) is software or hardware infrastructure supporting sending and receiving messages between distributed systems. Message-oriented middleware is in contrast to streaming-oriented middleware where data is communicate ...

project by

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(formerly

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) that implements the

Java Message Service The Jakarta Messaging API (formerly Java Message Service or JMS API) is a Java application programming interface (API) for message-oriented middleware. It provides generic messaging models, able to handle the producer–consumer problem, that can ...

2.0 API (JMS). It is the default JMS provider integrated into

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. In addition to support for the JMS API, OpenMQ provides additional enterprise features including clustering for scalability and

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, a C API, and a full JMX administration API. It also includes an implementation of the

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(JCA) called the JMSRA, that allows OpenMQ to be used by a

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compliant

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