Gordon Sim wrote:
Jonathan Robie wrote:
I think a genuine multi-language, platform-independent API standard
would be a big win, and could really change the way people do
messaging applications.
Personally, I think it is a standard messaging *protocol* that will
change the way people do messaging.
I imagine everyone on this list agrees that the standard messaging
protocol is the highest priority.
The API is less important to me. Where, as in the case of JMS for
example, there is already an established standard I think we could
even confuse the aims of AMQP by pushing an alternative 'standard' at
this stage.
Some consistency across the various sub-projects within Qpid however
is something I believe would be valuable.
Regardless, I think the first step is to get consistency across
sub-projects, including an AMQP Java API, serving as an implementation
layer for our JMS. At that point, we might have something clean enough
to consider standardizing. But the API can be standardized after the
protocol standard, which is a higher priority.
Jonathan
