Open Source FUSE Message Broker - based on ActiveMQ

Certified, tested, supported distribution of Apache ActiveMQ

FUSE Message Broker is an open source JMS message broker based on Apache ActiveMQ that is productized and supported for use in enterprise SOA infrastructure.

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The Most Popular Messaging Solution

FUSE Message Broker is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code. FUSE Message Broker is the JMS platform of choice for scalable, high-performance SOA infrastructure to connect processes across heterogeneous systems.

FUSE Message Broker delivers large amounts of data efficiently and reliably. Performance testing has shown that FUSE Message Broker exhibits the highest performance of any open source messaging platform, and has clustering and failover to ensure high availability.

Supported Standards

FUSE Message Broker supports JMS 1.1 and many integration-related standards including JDBC, JCA, and EJBs; dependent specifications such as JTA and JNDI; as well as AJAX, REST, HTTP, TCP, SSL, NIO, UDP, multicast, JGroups and JXTA transport protocols.

Key Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit
Standards-based – supports JMS, J2EE, JNDI,AJAX, REST, HTTP Easier to develop – seamless connectivity with new and existing assets
Pub-sub and P2P messaging – enables broadcasting and/or unique messaging Complete messaging platform – support for durable, fault tolerant connections
Designed for performanceSEDA, compression, prefetch, JMS streams Good for large deployments – handles large payloads and high throughput
High availability – clustering, failover, disaster recovery SGood for mission-critical apps – resilient to network failures
Authentication/authorization – supports custom and 3rd party solutions Integrates easily – leverages existing security investments

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  • Read the FUSE Overview white paper in English or in French
  • Watch a Getting Started tutorial.
  • Download FUSE Message Broker and read the documentation, both listed below.
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  • Build a pilot project! For help with your pilot, get Pilot Support.
  • Simplify development and build your project on the FUSE Forge.
  • Need to service-enable new or legacy applications? Check out FUSE Services Framework.
  • Have questions? Visit our forums.

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Demo Videos

Please enjoy these videos on using open source FUSE Message Router (Apache ActiveMQ) for messaging.

Introductory videos

Publish and subscribe examples

  • Chat Application – sample code with step-by-step instructions highlighting documentation for reviewing API calls
  • Durable Chat Application – sample code with step-by-step instructions highlighting new code that use durable chat capabilities
  • Hierarchical Chat Application – sample code with step-by-step instructions for wildcard subscriptions
  • Message Monitor – sample code with step-by-step instructions using properties files and highlight accessing forums for asking questions and clarifications
  • Selector Chat – sample code with step-by-step instructions for using build.xml used to pass in command line arguments
  • Transacted Chat – sample code for creating a transacted session and using commit() and rollback() with step-by-step instructions

Point-to-point examples

  • Talk – sample code showing how to create queue syntax for sending and receiving, with step-by-step instructions showing round robin message delivery
  • Queue Monitor – sample code with step-by-step instructions highlighting the API for session.createBrowser to “peek” at messages on the queue prior to delivery
  • Selector Talk – run sample, review code to selectively listen on a queue
  • Transacted Talk – run sample, review code for creating a transacted session including commit() and rollback() methods in a point-to-point application

Request-to-reply examples


Documentation


Current Release of FUSE Message Broker (Apache ActiveMQ): 5.3.x


What’s new in the FUSE Message Broker Documentation



  • New Security Guide explains SSL, HTTPS, authentication, and authorization features (Apr. 2009)

  • New Exploring JMS guide provides an introduction to JMS using FUSE Message Broker (Feb. 2009)

Searching the Library

The best way to search the library is using Google directly and narrowing the search scope using site:fusesource.com/docs/broker.

This method will limit the search to the FUSE Message Broker documentation. You can limit the scope further by adding a version number to the site: string.

For example to search the documentation for references to polling the file system you could enter site:fusesource.com/docs/broker/5.1/ cursors into the Google search field. Only results from the FUSE Message Broker version 5.1 library will be returned.

Getting Started

Book HTML PDF
Getting Started with the FUSE Product Family HTML icon PDF icon
Logisticx Tutorial Guide HTML icon PDF icon
Getting Started with FUSE Message Broker HTML icon PDF icon
Exploring JMS with FUSE Message Broker HTML icon PDF icon
Using the FUSE Message Broker Library HTML icon PDF icon
Glossary HTML icon PDF icon

Installing

Book HTML PDF
Release Notes HTML icon
Installing FUSE Message Broker HTML icon PDF icon

Configuring the Broker

Book HTML PDF
Connectivity Guide HTML icon PDF icon
Persistence Guide HTML icon PDF icon
Security Guide HTML icon PDF icon

Reference

Book HTML PDF
XML Configuration Reference HTML icon
API Reference HTML icon
Using Apache ActiveMQ HTML icon

ZIP File

Download the documentation: .zip

Previous Releases

5.2


5.1


5.0


4.1

License

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