Announcement: Stepping down as project lead

As of today I'll be stepping down as project lead for the HornetQ project.

This has been a really hard decision for me to make, after all, HornetQ is my baby, and I've invested a lot of mental as well as emotional effort in getting it to where it is today.

The last four years have been really tough. Creating a world class messaging system with a tiny team is a formidable job. But getting this far has taken it's toll on me, and I need to step aside and take a rest for a while.

So what am I going to do next? Not really sure yet, but I'll be taking it easy on sabbatical from Red Hat until the beginning of next year when things should be more clear.

Where does HornetQ go from here? The future is bright for HornetQ. It's the default messaging provider in JBoss AS 6 and 7, and will shortly be available supported in JBoss EAP.

I truly believe HornetQ has the potential to be the world's #1 messaging system. We already know it has the best performance, and now we're rounding off the last few features so we can really position ourselves as a true enterprise class messaging system to go against, and win against any system in the market.

The future is bright :)

This brings me to....

I'd also like to announce that Clebert Suconic will be taking over my role as HornetQ project lead :)

Congratulations Clebert!

Clebert is a nice guy and a talented engineer and knows HornetQ back to front having worked on it from the beginning. HornetQ can't be in better hands than Clebert's.

So, I bid you farewell, and happy messaging!

Tim Fox

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HornetQ - the Performance Leader in Enterprise Messaging

We have just published a report that compares the throughput performance of the majority of the enterprise messaging market, and HornetQ comes out as #1 :) In fact, in several uses cases we pretty much destroy the competition. Read the full report

HornetQ 2.1.2 Released

We have just released 2.1.2, which contains basically bug fixes and a couple improvements.

The main work done at this release was making sure compacting and the journal is working fine.

The twitter bridge was also made through this release, thanks to our contributor Tomohisa Igarashi.

Case Study - How Last.fm Uses HornetQ for Their Streaming Infrastructure

We have published a case study about last.fm's use of HornetQ in their infrastructure.

If some of our users have success stories or case studies about HornetQ they want to share, please let us know.

New Stuff on HornetQ 2.1 Final

HornetQ 2.0 was already fast as mentioned before. And still we have done significant performance improvements on this release.

As a matter of fact, if you are doing light weight message sends you have the option of batching multiple sends and using more of your network resources.

We have also added Stomp to our list of native protocols.

As well the possibility of using WebSockets at the browser

We love what we do, HornetQ is already a very strong messaging server, our performance is astonishing and we are full speed ahead on bringing even more improvements on 2.2

Full speed ahead on 2.2 now!

HornetQ 2.1.0.Final

I'm glad to announce that HornetQ 2.1.0 is now Final. http://www.jboss.org/hornetq/downloads.html

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