HornetQ 2.1.0.CR1 is released

We are glad to announce that we just released 2.1.0.CR1.

Look at the release notes for a complete list of changes:

https://jira.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310830&version=12314884

Also, if you speak chinese, there's now a Chinese Version for the documentation:

http://www.jboss.org/hornetq/chinesedocs.html

Turbo messaging in JBoss AS 6.0 M3 thanks to HornetQ

We are glad to announce that HornetQ is now the default (built-in) JMS provider in JBoss AS 6, which has just been released.

We have done many tests to make sure JEE users will be happy with HornetQ in JBoss AS. We believe these are the main benefits for AS users:

- Native IO on Linux

All the HornetQ data is stored in its journal. JBoss AS 6 now bundles the native HornetQ AIO library for Linux users.

Don't worry if you don't use Linux though. HornetQ is still *extremely* fast on Windows, Solaris and other platforms.

- Deployers.

We have integrated HornetQ with the application server deployers. You can have your enterprise application (WAR, EAR.. etc) containing HornetQ deployment descriptors in simple config files which is much simpler than the old formats used by JBoss Messaging and JBoss MQ.

- Administration

We have integrated the JBoss AS admin console with HornetQ. If you don't like XML at all, just use the administrator to maintain your destinations. Simple as click-click

- Enhancements

We have made several enhancements to HornetQ during the release of the JBoss Application Server. HornetQ was already fast before as proven by SpecJMS; an industry standard benchmark yet we have made lots of enhancements. Look at the release notes for more information.

Web Sockets Support For HornetQ

Web Sockets support has landed in HornetQ trunk and will be available in 2.1.0 release to allow Web browsers to directly exchange messages with HornetQ servers.

See this article for a thorough description of the feature.

With HornetQ 2.0.0, you could send and receive messages from Java applications.
With upcoming 2.1.0 release, we expand it to any environment with a Stomp client and from Web browsers with Web Sockets support.

Enjoy!

Want to see HornetQ at JUDCon 2010?

If you want to hear a very cool presentation on HornetQ by Diego Naya at JBoss JUDCon 2010, then you can vote for it here! The top voted for presentations will form the third track at the conference.

Free webinar on HornetQ

The guys at roklee are hosting a free webinar on migration from ActiveMQ to HornetQ. Sign up here

Want to work full-time on HornetQ?

Rocklee labs, are currently looking to hire a Java senior developer to work full time on the HornetQ project as a community contribution. So.... work full time on a cutting edge open source project AND get paid for it. Doesn't get much better than that

Nice post on ActiveMQ-->HornetQ migration

Roklee, has posted a nice article on a migration from ActiveMQ to HornetQ