What is OpenMAMA?
About OpenMAMA
- OpenMAMA is an open source project that provides a high performance middleware agnostic messaging API that interfaces with a variety of message oriented middleware systems.
- Licensed under the LGPL 2.1 license.
- Hosted at The Linux Foundation in a neutral environment that encourages collaboration.
- Follows open source development methods and processes.
- Includes open and accessible mailing lists, source code repository, and bug tracking systems.
- Participation is open to any developer, corporation or entity, provided that they abide by the terms of the project, and the LGPL 2.1.
Why is OpenMAMA important?
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- OpenMAMA enables users to embrace new middleware technologies and applications as the market innovates.
- It is independent from middleware technologies.
- OpenMAMA helps organizations speed up their time-to-market deployment for event driven applications and improve their messaging middleware technology.
- OpenMAMA has high potential for market penetration outside of the financial sector, towards other sectors such as Telecommunication, High Performance Computing, Web Services and Logistics.
Why is having a common messaging API important?
A common middleware agnostic messaging API provides several advantages:
- It allows developers to bring applications to market more easily and rapidly, within any industry-standard middleware environment, irrespective of the network infrastructure.
- It ensures high performance both in terms of throughput and message latency.
- It provides commonality at API level but freedom to differentiate both at lower and higher stacks (ie. middleware technology and applications).
How OpenMAMA Works
OpenMama uses a common publish/subscribe idiom (pub/sub). In this messaging pattern the messages are not sent directly to the receivers, but published to a topic. Subscribers express interest in one or more topic, and receive only messages that concern them. This decoupling of publishers and subscribers allows for greater scalability.
