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About the Message Broker

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WSO2 Message Broker (MB) is a fast, lightweight, user-friendly, open source distributed message brokering system, delivered under the Apache license 2.0. WSO2 MB allows system administrators and developers to easily configure jms queues and topics, to be used in message routing, message stores, message processors. It also supports transport ws eventing. WSO2 MB is compliant with Advanced Message Queueing Protocol Version 0-91 and Java Message Service Specification version 1.1.

WSO2 MB is developed on top of the award-winning WSO2 Carbon platform, an OSGi based framework that provides seamless modularity to your SOA via componentization. It also contains a range of optional components (add-ons) that can be installed to customize the behavior of the MB. Further, any existing features of the MB which are not required to your environment can be easily removed using the underlying provisioning framework of Carbon. In brief, WSO2 MB is future-proof and can be fully customized and tailored to meet your exact SOA needs.

The WSO2 Message Broker is an on-going project. It undergoes continuous improvements and enhancements with each new release, to address new business challenges and customer expectations. WSO2 invites users, developers and enthusiasts to get involved or get the assistance from our development teams at many different levels through online forums, mailing lists and support options. We are committed to ensure you a fulfilling user experience at any level of involvement with the WSO2 Message Broker.

What Is New In This Release

The WSO2 Message Broker version 2.0.1 is the successor of version 2.0.0. It has several enhancements and defect fixes included in it. For a list of fixed defects in this release, refer to : WSO2 Message Broker - Fixed Issues.

New Features and Enhancements:

  • Clustering Capability - Support for distributed message brokering is added, facilitate by newly-invented Andes distributed message brokering system which uses Apache Cassandra as its storage. The new feature gives WSO2 MB better scalability to match high-end message brokering requirements. 
  • Performance Improvements - Faster with Apache Cassandra Database support and enhancements in the core Carbon platform.
  • Support for large messages. 

Known Issues

For a list of known issues in WSO2 Message Broker 2.0.1, refer to the following link in WSO2 Oxygen Tank:

Community Resources

WSO2 is willing to provide you guidance for any technical issues or questions regarding the WSO2 Message Broker product. You can communicate with the Message Broker development team directly using the relevant mailing lists mentioned here: http://wso2.org/mail.

WSO2 encourages you to report issues and enhancement requests for Message Broker using the publicJIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/MB. You can also track their resolutions and comment on the progress.

Questions regarding the Message Broker can also be raised through http://stackoverflow.com. Ensure that you tag the question with appropriate keywords such as WSO2 and Message Broker so that our team can easily find your questions and provide answers.

For tutorials, articles, Webinars and similar resources, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank and search under the 'Resources' menu.

Support Options

WSO2 also offers a variety of development and production support programs, ranging from Web-based support during normal business hours, to premium 24x7 phone support. WSO2 is committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that support leverages the open development methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the products. For additional support information please refer to http://wso2.com/support.