- advisory
- advisory message
A special type of message that contains administrative information about the message broker. They are sent by the broker to special advisory topics.
- advisory topic
A group of special topics that are created by a message broker that are used for monitoring the state of the broker. The broker sends messages about a variety of internal broker events. Clients subscribing to these topics receive advisory messages about these objects.
- Apache ActiveMQ
An open source project that provides the messaging technology for Red Hat JBoss A-MQ.
- cluster
- connection
A bridge between a client and a broker connector or between two brokers in a network of brokers.
- connector
An object that connects clients to a broker.
- composite destination
A virtual destination that serves as a proxy for multiple destinations. Producers can send messages to the composite destination an it will be automatically sent to all of the physical destinations that make up the composite destination.
- dead letter queue
A special destination used by the message broker to hold undeliverable messages.
- dynamic discovery
A mechanism for clients to become aware of the existence of brokers through the use of a discovery agent.
- discovery agent
A mechanism that advertises the list of available message brokers to message clients and other message brokers.
- exclusive consumer
A mechanism that ensures that only one consumer connected to a queue can consume messages.
- failover
A transport that automatically moves to a new connection in the event that its current connection fails.
A cluster architecture where clients are able to migrate from a failed broker to a running broker.
- network of brokers
A group of brokers that are linked together to operate as a single logical unit.
- network connector
A configuration entity used to link brokers together to form a network of brokers.
- network bridge
A runtime directional link between brokers that is used to forward messages. Network bridges are created by network connectors.
- retroactive consumer
A consumer that indicates to the topic that every attempt is to be made to send messages that the consumer may have missed.
- store and forward
A paradigm in which brokers receive messages, store them locally, and forwards the message to a recipient when it is able to do so. The message is only deleted once it has been successfully delivered.
- transport connector
An address at which a message broker accepts client connections.
- virtual destination
A logical destination that represents one or more physical destinations.
- virtual topic
A logical topic that allows consumers to use a physical queue to consume messages from the destination.