----- Original Message ----- > On 5 January 2012 19:46, Fraser Adams <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > At the risk of being controversial :-) > > > > So qpid has both C++ and Java brokers available. Out of curiosity > > (and > > definitely not wishing to start a flame war!!!!) what's the benefit > > of that > > strategy, particularly because AMQP is language neutral and the C++ > > broker > > acts as a very nice JMS message provider. > > > > > So the most obvious difference is that the Java Broker runs pretty > much > anywhere and has the same functionality across all those platforms... > Having spent the best part of an afternoon just trying to get the C++ > broker and store to build on my Ubuntu 11.10 machine... that is > certainly a > huge convenience :-) For a lot of organisations, including the one I > work > at, having the ability to deploy exactly the same binaries and > configurations on Windows, Linux (all flavours), Solaris, OS X, > etc... does > turn out to be surprisingly convenient. > > The Java Broker also allows communication using older versions of > AMQP with > automatic conversion (i.e. you can mix AMQP 0-8,0-9,0-9-1 and 0-10 > clients > on the same broker, using the same queues). > > Most of my qpid work has been done using Java clients and the C++ > broker, > > so I'm curious as to what the advantages of the Java broker may be. > > As far > > as I could imagine from general experience of C++ versus Java I'd > > be > > surprise if the Java broker performs anything like as well as the > > C++ > > broker (but I'm prepared to be proven wrong!!). > > > > > There are use cases where the C++ Broker handily out performs the > Java > Broker, certainly... but there are others where you'd be surprised > that the > reverse is true.
Hi Rob, I'm sure others on this list, like myself, would be keen to hear of use cases where the Java broker outperforms the C++ broker. What does that look like? Thanks, William > > > > I'm genuinely curious, I'm really not trying to offend anyone > > working on > > the Java broker so please don't take it that way. I've only ever > > used the > > C++ broker so I'm coming from a position of total ignorance with > > respect to > > the Java broker. > > > > I'd appreciate thoughts/opinions. > > > > > From a historical point of view, the Java Broker was written first, > and the > C++ Broker was developed with the aim of better exploiting > performance > opportunities that could be gained by using lower level C APIs > (particularly from Linux). > > Historically we've not done as good a job as we could have in keeping > the > brokers in sync in terms of functionality, but hopefully we will > improve on > that in the future. > > Cheers, > Rob > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
