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The Stomp project is the Streaming Text Orientated Messaging Protocol site (or the Protocol Briefly Known as TTMP and Represented by the symbol :ttmp). Its a simple and easy to implement protocol for working with Message Orientated Middleware from any language.

Links

• Protocol Specification

Clients

• Ruby
• Perl with more details
• PHP
• DotNet if you wanna work on Windows or Mono
• C++ Client provides a C++ API to JMS/MOM with an implementation on Stomp with OpenWire to come next
• C (libstomp) utilizing the APR is under development
• Python
• Pike

Servers

• ActiveMQ
• SERStomp

Development Notes

• Transaction Handling
• Character Encoding
• Ack Modes

Alternatives

• WS-Ramp - SOAP based asynch messaging profile
• WS-ReliableMessaging - SOAP based asynch messaging profile
• WS-Reliability SOAP based async messaging profile. I think this one has fallen out of favor with the WS-Glitterati
• XMPP - XML based messaging protocol originally created for IM, but not really bound to it.
• TOC- 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.