AMQP Conference 2010 in San Diego, June 8th

Will be held once again at the University of California in San Diego.

Here is the preliminary agenda.
Like last year, we will be holding a one day public conference with presentations from AMQP designers and implementers - this makes it easy for delegates to fly in and out on the same day and was appreciated by many attendees last year. We also intend to add a workshop flavour to this year's conference to make it more interactive, and will have double the capacity available for attendees.

So pencil Tuesday June 8th into your diary; transform the world of middleware, meet interesting people and a enjoy a great venue!

Itinerary and booking details will follow later this month.

Kirk's Rants: AMQP: Why Do I Care

This Kirk's Rants: AMQP: Why Do I Care is great piece on standards in general and AMQP in particular.
Please do take a look if you are interested in the topics of messaging and standards, not to mention open source.

Thank you, Kirk, for such an excellent piece!

John

Getting started with AMQP and RabbitMQ

Getting started with AMQP and RabbitMQ is a great article about AMQP with lots of good explanations. It uses RabbitMQ, Ruby and Erlang for the examples, so is not the version that we have ported to OpenVMS OpenAMQ (see the OpenAMQ on OpenVMS page too), but still worth a read and even a try as it does a good job of explaining where all the bits and pieces are and how they interact.

Regards, John

AMQP Programming Tutorial for C++, Java and Python

AMQP Programming Tutorial for C++, Java and Python is a well-written tutorial.

AMQP and QPID - nice article by William Henry with more to come

http://ipbabble.com/2009/02/amqp-and-qpid.html is a nice introduction to AMQP, with the promise of a sample to follow - watch this space!
William points out a rather good introduction (will we ever have too many, probably) to the AMQP concepts which can be found here http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_MRG/1.1/html/Messaging_Tutorial/chap-Messaging_Tutorial-Initial_Concepts.html

From Linux to Bangalore and back via OpenVMS

You really should go and read the following blog entry: http://www.zyre.com/blog:from-linux-to-bangalore-and-back.

Any one of the machines in between could have been Windows, OpenVMS, Linux or HP-UX.

For fun we've (Pieter H. and friends) opened a live Zyre server, which accepts unauthenticated connections (we'll probably lock it down at a later stage).

This means it's possible to try RestMS apps without installing anything except perhaps some Perl modules, if you want to use the Perl RestMS class[1].

I've written a blog entry[2] that shows how to write a trivial micro- blogging service in Perl using this class. To save you the click, here is what the publisher looks like:

use RestMS ();
my $domain = RestMS::Domain->new (hostname => "live.zyre.com"); my $feed = $domain->feed (name => "ublog", type => "fanout"); my $message = RestMS::Message->new; $message->content (shift); $message->headers (name => "Jeep Nine Thirst"); $feed->send ($message);

This is a nice example of how RestMS maps to a clean class structure.

-Pieter

Links:

[1] http://www.restms.org/wiki:restms-pl
[2] http://www.zyre.com/blog:live-zyre

Development of AMQP1.0 DRAFT

AMQP 1.0 is on the way. See here for initial materials which are being prepared by the members of the AMQP1.0 SIG for distribution.

Cheers, John

Three interesting little articles with good background on AMQP

Jeff Gould has written a short series called "Can AMQP break IBM's MOM monopoly" consisting of 3 articles. I have placed the URLs below:

1. What Is AMQP All About? http://www.interopnews.com/analysis/can-amqp-break-ibms-mom-monopoly-part-1.html
   
2. A Chat with Carl Trieloff about Apache Qpid and Red Hat MRG http://www.interopnews.com/analysis/can-amqp-break-ibms-mom-monopoly-part-2.html
   
3. A Chat with Alexis Richardson about AMQP and RabbitMQ at http://www.interopnews.com/analysis/can-amqp-break-ibms-mom-monopoly-part-3.html
   

Cheers, John

OpenAMQ on OpenVMS - Post Comments Here

We hope you are having a fine time with the OpenAMQ software on OpenVMS and that as a result of your work you have a few ideas you would like to share with the community.

If that is the case, this is the place to post your input.

Cheers, BC&JA

OpenAMQ on OpenVMS - Post Bugs Here

In the unlikely event that you find bugs or typographical errors in the documentation please let us know by posting comments to this entry.

If you feel you have the time and inclination to help out with the odd item, then do let us know as the more people help out the better, and merrier!


Cheers, BC&JA

OpenAMQ on OpenVMS Released (Integrity and Alpha)

BC&JA are reasonably happy to announce the availability of OpenAMQ on OpenVMS for the Integrity and Alpha platforms.

The OpenVMS versions required are V8.3 or higher.

http://www.johndapps.com-a.googlepages.com/OpenAMQ-i64-notes-01.pdf is the installation guide and release notes for both platforms.

The Alpha kit is here http://www.johndapps.com-a.googlepages.com/OPENAMQ-VMS-AXP-01.ZIP and the Integrity kit is here http://www.johndapps.com-a.googlepages.com/OPENAMQ-VMS-I64-01.ZIP

Please do let us know when you download the kit by posting a comment to this entry.

Suggestions, bug reports and other good information may also be posted here in the blog.

Cheers, BC&JA
PS: it is worth pointing out that BC did all the work and JA just did the announcements!

OpenAMQ on OpenVMS

The place to come for announcements, questions, reporting bugs, telling us what you are doing with the OpenAMQ implementation of the AMQP specification on OpenVMS, and so forth.
We chose OpenAMQ due to its relatively long history, the fact that it has been used in production for quite some time and the help and advice we are receiving from iMatix, the implementers of OpenAMQ.

It is important to note that this initial port is not intended for use in production. Rather, it is for you to get a feel for the product on OpenVMS and let us know what you find, be it bugs, suggestions or whatever - software development kit, if you will.

Further, no work has been done so far on tuning and performance testing of OpenAMQ on OpenVMS. In fact, the current port on OpenVMS is single-threaded. We are working on removing this restriction and will post progress in this blog as we make it.

Enough said. Time for everyone to download the kit and start working!