An introduction to the advanced message queue protocol

John O'Hara from J. P. Morgan started AMQP in 2003. He put incredible amount of work into it. Then, J. P. Morgan approached other firms to establish an organization for creating open standards in messaging. According to AMOP's official website (standard for passing messages between applications or organizations. So, AMQP just defines the messaging properties, queue properties, how messages are routed between applications and clients, how Message Brokers ensure that the message is received or sent, and other concerns such as reliability and security.

According to the AMQP website (http://www.amqp.org), AMQP has lots of capabilities to accomplish goals:

• Security
• Reliability
• Interoperability
• Standard
• Open standard

Interoperability and reliability are very important for today's software engineering problems. The power of AMQP comes from its features like interoperability, reliability and so forth. Especially, with interoperability, we can use different types of technologies in sender and receiver. The main problem for most of the Internet giants is scalability. Scalability has direct relationship to reliability. Chapter 3, Architecture and Messaging, covers the details and specifications of AMQP.