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<p>The Stomp project is the Streaming Text Orientated Messaging Protocol site (or the Protocol Briefly Known as TTMP and Represented by the symbol :ttmp).</p>

<p>Stomp provides an interoperable wire format so that any of the available <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/Clients" data-linked-resource-id="57862" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Clients" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Stomp Clients</a> can communicate with any <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/Brokers" data-linked-resource-id="72315" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Brokers" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Stomp Message Broker</a> to provide easy and widespread messaging interop among languages, platforms and brokers.</p>

<p>Thanks to <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/StompConnect" data-linked-resource-id="72343" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="StompConnect" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">StompConnect</a> you can now use any <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/Clients" data-linked-resource-id="57862" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Clients" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Stomp Client</a> to interop with pretty much any Message Broker!</p>

<h3>Easy Integration</h3>

<p>Stomp is a very simple and easy to implement protocol, coming from the HTTP school of design; the server side may be hard to implement well, but it is very easy to write a client to get yourself connected. For example you can use Telnet to login to any Stomp broker and interact with it!</p>

<p>Many developers have told us that they have managed to write a Stomp client in a couple of <em>hours</em> to integrate their particular language, runtime or platform into the Stomp network. So if your favoured language/runtime of choice does not offer a good enough Stomp client please try write one as we love <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/Contributing" data-linked-resource-id="30451" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Contributing" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">contributions</a>!</p>

<h3>Links</h3>

<ul>
	<li><a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/Protocol" data-linked-resource-id="30757" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Protocol" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Protocol Specification</a></li>
	<li><a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/Transaction+Handling" data-linked-resource-id="32792" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Transaction Handling" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Transaction Handling</a></li>
	<li><a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/Character+Encoding" data-linked-resource-id="32795" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Character Encoding" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Character Encoding</a></li>
	<li><a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/Ack+Modes" data-linked-resource-id="32797" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Ack Modes" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Ack Modes</a></li>
	<li><a class="confluence-link" href="/display/STOMP/Stomp+v1.1+Ideas" data-linked-resource-id="105119750" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Stomp v1.1 Ideas" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Stomp v1.1 Ideas</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Alternatives</h3>

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/specification/ws-ramp/">WS-Ramp</a> - SOAP based asynch messaging profile</li>
	<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/wsrmspecindex.asp">WS-ReliableMessaging</a> - SOAP based asynch messaging profile</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/webservices/htdocs/spec/ws-reliability.html">WS-Reliability</a> SOAP based async messaging profile. I think this one has fallen out of favor with the WS-Glitterati</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.xmpp.org/">XMPP</a> - XML based messaging protocol originally created for IM, but not really bound to it.</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.runabot.com/aim-toc-protocol.html">TOC</a>- Text oriented messaging protocol created for interop with AOL Instant Messenger. I've seen people use it for arbitrary asynch messaging, so am listing it. Please don't serioulsy consider it.</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.mqtt.org/">MQTT</a> - MQ Telemetry Transport, simple binary publish/subscribe protocol. No security features.</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.beepcore.org/">BEEP</a> - <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/x-beep/">overview</a></li>
</ul>