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

Introduction to HornetQ article on DZone

If implementing STOMP and websockets support is not enough, Jeff has also found time to write a nice introductory article on HornetQ which is published on Dzone :)

STOMP support and very cool stuff with Web sockets

Thanks to the work of Jeff Mesnil, HornetQ TRUNK now supports the STOMP protocol natively (that means without having to use StompConnect).

If you're not aware of it, STOMP is a simple, interoperable text based messaging protocol, originally implemented by the ActiveMQ guys.

Sure, it doesn't have some of the features that you'll find in more complex protocols but in many applications it's really good enough.

The great thing about STOMP too is that there are already many STOMP clients available in many different languages, this immediately opens up HornetQ to be accessed by clients in .NET, Python, Ruby etc.

The HornetQ server simultaneous supports all its protocols, so you can, e.g. send a JMS message and consume it as a STOMP message and vice versa, going ahead the same will be true with AMQP.

If STOMP support is not cool enough already, Jeff has done some very cool stuff with web sockets and STOMP.

Jeff has written a simple Javascript library which can speak the STOMP protocol, combine this with web sockets and you can now have your in-browser JavaScript apps talking directly to the HornetQ server.

Jeff demonstrated a very simple prototype with a simple JavaScript chat application that consumed messages from and sent messages to a topic on HornetQ.

Web sockets are new technology so aren't currently available in all browsers, but going ahead this is something that should be much more widely available.

Very cool stuff, and all of this will be available in the up coming 2.1 release :)

HornetQ reaches 800K messages / sec on a commodity server

I've been hacking away here, and managed to get a throughput of 800K small non persistent messages per second on a single 4 x 2.5GHz core server. The server was only running at 80% utilisation at this point. That means not even one core used :) Now... I just need to think of a way to incorporate this in a non hacky way.....

JBoss HornetQ sets record SPECjms2007 benchmark results

HornetQ- the new ultra high performance enterprise grade messaging system from JBoss, sets a record breaking score in the SPECjms2007 industry standard benchmark for JMS messaging system performance.

HornetQ 2.0.GA obtained scores up to 307% higher than previously published SPECjms2007 benchmark results, on the same server hardware and operating system set-up.

The peer-reviewed results are available on the spec.org web-site: http://www.spec.org/jms2007/results/jms2007.html

The results were obtained by Kai Sachs and Stefan Appel from an independent research group at the TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Their release announcement can be found here:

http://www.dvs.tu-darmstadt.de/news/specjms2007Results_HornetQ.html

Work is currently occurring on HornetQ 2.1 which includes another round of enhancements to take performance to yet another level.

For more information on HornetQ, please see the web site http://hornetq.org

SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECjms2007® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results used in the above comparison refer to submissions made on the 17 Sep 2009 and 20 Jan 2010 by TU University Darmstadt

DZone interviews Tim Fox on HornetQ

DZone presents a short interview on the past, present and future of HornetQ