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STOMP - Simple (or Streaming) Text Orientated Messaging Protocol



STOMP provides an interoperable wire format so that STOMP clients can communicate with any STOMP message broker to provide easy and widespread messaging interoperability among many languages, platforms and brokers.


STOMP is a very simple and easy to implement protocol, coming from the HTTP school of design; the server side may be hard to implement well, but it is very easy to write a client to get yourself connected. For example you can use Telnet to login to any STOMP broker and interact with it!


The protocol is broadly similar to HTTP, and works over TCP using the following commands:

  • CONNECT

  • SEND

  • SUBSCRIBE

  • UNSUBSCRIBE

  • BEGIN

  • COMMIT

  • ABORT

  • ACK

  • NACK

  • DISCONNECT

Communication between client and server is through a “frame” consisting of a number of lines. The first line contains the command, followed by headers in the form <key>: <value> (one per line), followed by a blank line and then the body content, ending in a null character. Communication between server and client is through a MESSAGE, RECEIPT or ERROR frame with a similar format of headers and body content.


Implementations

These are some MOM products that support STOMP Protocol:

  • STOMP servers

  • STOMP clients


STOMP Servers

Name

Description

Compliance

Apache ActiveMQ

the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server

1.01.1

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis has a proven non blocking architecture. It delivers outstanding performance.

1.01.11.2

Apache Apollo

a redesigned version of ActiveMQ

1.01.11.2

CoilMQ

a lightweight pure Python STOMPbroker inspired by StompServer

1.0

Gozirra

a lightweight Java STOMPbroker

1.0

HornetQ

puts the buzz in messaging

1.0

MorbidQ

a STOMPbased publish/subscribe server with absolutely no potential to cluster

1.0

RabbitMQ

an Erlang-based, multi-protocol broker with full support forSTOMP via a plugin

1.01.11.2

Sprinkle

written in Python and runs on Unix type platforms

1.0

Stampy

a Java implementation of the STOMP1.2 specification

1.2

StompConnect

provides a bridge to any other JMS provider

1.0

StompServer

a lightweight pure Ruby STOMPserver

1.0



STOMP Clients

Name

Language

Description

Compliance

activemessaging

Ruby

an attempt to bring the simplicity and elegance of Rails development to the world of messaging

1.0

AnyEvent::STOMP

Perl

a lightweight event-driven STOMPclient

1.0

Apache CMS

C++

is a JMS-like API for C++

1.0

Apache NMS

C# and .Net

a JMS-like API for .Net

1.0

as3-stomp

Flash

an actionscript 3 implementation of the STOMPprotocol

1.0

delphistompclient

Delphi and FreePascal

a STOMPclient for Embarcadero Delphi and FreePascal

1.0

dstomp

Dynamic C

a STOMPclient library written in Dynamic C for Rabbit

1.0

Gozirra

Java

a lightweight implementation of the STOMPspecification

1.0

hxStomp

Haxe

a TCP socket-based STOMPprotocol client library written for the Haxe language

1.0

libstomp

C

an APR based C library

1.0

Net::Stomp

Perl

a Streaming Text Orientated Messaging Protocol client

1.0

Net::STOMP::Client

Perl

STOMPobject oriented client module

1.01.11.2

objc-stomp

Obkective C

a simple STOMP client based on AsynSocket

1.0

POE::Component::Client::Stomp

Perl

a Perl extension for the POE Environment

1.0

onstomp

Ruby

client library for message passing with brokers that support the STOMPprotocol

1.01.1



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