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Message-Oriented Middleware

What Is Message-Oriented Middleware?

Message-oriented middleware is a group of software products and applications that allows applications to communicate and exchange data or messages between distributed systems. Message-oriented middleware entails data passage between applications that use a communication channel carrying self-contained elements of messages. A message-oriented middleware system offers asynchronous communication and sends data to perform asynchronous operations. This system employs inter-application software that depends on asynchronous message passage that opposes request-response architecture. The platform comprises a message queue used as a temporary stage, rendering the destination program busy or unconnected. This mechanism helps to store the message on the message-oriented middleware. Clients using message-oriented middleware can send and receive messages through this queue. The queues are the main component of implementing asynchronous interactions in message-oriented middleware.

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How to Configure Apache ActiveMQ on AWS

Apache ActiveMQ is an open-source message broker. It is one of the most popular Apache open source products and supports multiple industry-standard connectivity protocols. Clients can choose among multiple different languages and platforms for connectivity to ActiveMQ. Apache ActiveMQ provides client libraries in C++, Python, Java, C, etc. for developing applications. Some of the most popular protocols supported by ActiveMQ are AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, and JMS. ActiveMQ supports a wide variety of messaging use cases to meet almost all the needs of a production-grade messaging system.

Amazon MQ

AWS provided Amazon MQ is a managed service that can be used for Apache ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ. Amazon MQ service makes the management, configuration, deployment, and usage of these two message brokers easy on AWS. Amazon MQ makes the lifecycle management and operation of these services easy for an IT organization as this is a fully managed service provided by AWS. Code written to connect to on-prem Apache ActiveMQ can be transparently migrated to use ActiveMQ using AWS.