Topologies

• VM
  • Used for testing.
• Client-Server
  • Efficient and fast solution for large numbers of clients
  • Handles diverse range of communication options
  • Can use Discovery to find available brokers
• Embedded Broker
  • Similar to Client Server but clients contain a locally embedded broker
  • Client and broker are on same JVM
  • Allows for point to point networking, but with the scalabilty of flexible messaging.
  • For example the entire network could fail, but a service could continue publishing messages to its embedded broker.
• Peer to Peer
  • Allows peer based clusters to be created where there is no server - just clients connecting together
• JXTA
  • Uses the full JXTA stack for negotiating NAT

Examples: http://activemq.codehaus.org/Topologies