ActiveMQ Use Cases

Transactional messaging
- Transactions
- Persistance
- Never missing a message
High performance market data distribution
- focuses on throughput and efficient routing
- Idea is to distribute massive volumes of rapidly changing data around a large network as quickly as possible.
- throughtput and performance is key; Persistance rarely used, loss of a few messages is acceptable
Clustering and general purpose async messaging model
- focuses on latency and speed
- Aim is to maintain a cluster of nodes
Web Streaming of data
- focuses on streamlet support in ActiveMQ
- For example: streaming financial stock prices, to show live IM conversations, dynamically update live content and news, etc...
- Can integrate ActiveMQ into a web container and provide close web-integration to enable HTTP POSTs to publish messages and slow JavaScript HTTP GET operations to receive messages
RESTful API to messaging using HTTP
- Focuses on connectivity, cross-language & cross-technology connectivity.
- Can provide a HTTP interface to the message broker.
- Allows for simple, cross-language, and technology agnostic API to publishing or receiving messages.
- Uses HTTP GET and POST