Apache ActiveMQ® offers a robust messaging platform that scales well and has a large and active community of contributors behind it. It has been around for more than a decade and has legions of customers who use it to power mission-critical applications to process key business transactions and leverage it as the connectivity layer of their Event Driven Architecture.
Three reasons Apache ActiveMQ® is incredibly popular amongst developers:
- Multi-protocol support, supports JMS, AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, etc., enabling developers to power a large number of use cases.
- A feature-rich broker that offers reliability, persistence & scalability.
- Integrates well with other Apache projects such as Camel and Spring.