Suggest a JMS provider ( for Java platform)

Question

What is the most reliable open source JMS provider ? Any good/bad experience with gearman or Apache ActiveMQ ?

Answer 1

I've had very good experiences with ActiveMQ, reasons being:

• very stable,
• light memory footprint,
• easy to deploy and use,
• good documentation,
• ready-to-use enterprise integration patterns via Apache Camel.

Another goody, while not a common use case but still nice to know: it's fairly simple to embed ActiveMQ into your own application as well.

Answer 2

I have only experimented with JMS (i.e. no production use) but found apacheMQ to be pretty good. The documentation is good.

I've also seen openJMS http://openjms.sourceforge.net/ but have not tried it.

Answer 3

JBoss Messaging / HornetQ: http://jboss.org/hornetq/

http://www.c2b2.co.uk/iPoint/ipoint?SelectedPage=69&110ArticleID=17 (from 2008, though)