How does ActiveMQ compare to JBossMQ

There are some similarities between the two; they both support JMS 1.1 and run inside JBoss 4.x.

However ActiveMQ does offer some specific differences and advantages (at least from our perspective)

• ActiveMQ works great in any JVM not just inside the JBoss application server
• ActiveMQ supports distributed destinations across networks
• ActiveMQ supports reliable connections with configurable automatic reconnection
• ActiveMQ has great Spring Support
• ActiveMQ supports Composite Destinations, Ajax, REST, Stomp, OpenWire, Jabber and has complete support for Advisory Message support
• ActiveMQ is very fast; often 10x faster than JBossMQ.

We have a performance report comparing ActiveMQ against a number of other commercial and open source JMS providers. You can get the report here alternatively if you'd like a copy of our performance report comparing ourselves against various other open source and commercial JMS providers please send an email to dev at logicblaze.com.

Performance report

We have a performance report comparing ActiveMQ against a number of other commercial and open source JMS providers. You can get the report here alternatively if you'd like a copy of our performance report comparing ourselves against various other open source and commercial JMS providers please send an email to dev at logicblaze.com.

If you're not convinced by performance reports - try running our open source JMS performance benchmark yourself.