Hi Everyone,
As I'm sure a number of you are aware, there has been some early
prototyping/devel work going on by a few qpid developers on a 1.0
protocol implementation. Because of the early/experimental nature of the
work we've not yet pulled it into the qpid tree, but things are far
enough along now that we'd like to find a place for it. The goal of this
work is not only to provide qpid support for AMQP 1.0, but also to
provide a very portable, reusable, and embeddable protocol
implementation that makes it easy to integrate AMQP 1.0 support into the
widest possible range of existing software.
Keeping that in mind, I'd like to propose the following source layout to
bring in this new work, starting from the QPID SVN root
(https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/):
.../qpid/
|
+--amp/
|
+--amp-c/
|
+--amp-java/
|
+--spec
|
+--test
This directory structure is intended to provide a bunch of different
things. For users interested in embedding AMQP 1.0 support into a C or
Java project, the amp-c and amp-java directories would be the main entry
points for each language respectively. The spec directory contains a
language neutral specification for the protocol API and the
implementation design should anyone wish to develop a similarly
structured implementation in another language, or extend the existing
implementations in any way. The test directory will contain a
comprehensive set of python tests that can be shared between the C and
Java implementations. The amp directory itself will be a top level entry
point intended for qpid developers and will facilitate streamlined build
and test of both implementations thereby ensuring they remain in sync as
much as possible.
Currently the C implementation is hosted on github
(https://github.com/rhs/amp) and Rob is tracking this pretty closely in
Java. Please check it out and let me know if you have any questions,
obviously it's still work in progress and shouldn't be considered cast
in stone at this point.
The name "amp" isn't cast in stone either. It's origin is simply AMQP
minus the Queuing. Justin suggested "proton" as well. Any other
suggestions are welcome, with the caveat that we'd like to get this
checked in pretty soon as we have increasing numbers of people working
together on this stuff now.
Please let me know your thoughts. We've discussed a milestone release
for this stuff at the end of March, so obviously we'd like to get things
into the tree ASAP. If I don't hear any objections, I'll submit
something early next week.
--Rafael
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation
Project: http://qpid.apache.org
Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
