Chapter 1. Overview
AMQ Spring Boot Starter is an adapter for creating Spring-based applications that use AMQ messaging. It provides a Spring Boot starter module that allows you to build standalone Spring applications. The starter uses the AMQ JMS client to communicate using the AMQP 1.0 protocol.
AMQ Spring Boot Starter is part of AMQ Clients, a suite of messaging libraries supporting multiple languages and platforms. For an overview of the clients, see AMQ Clients Overview. For information about this release, see AMQ Clients 2.4 Release Notes.
AMQ Spring Boot Starter is based on the AMQP 1.0 JMS Spring Boot project.
1.1. Key features
- Quickly build standalone Spring applications with built-in messaging
- Automatic configuration of JMS resources
- Configurable pooling of JMS connections and sessions
1.2. Supported standards and protocols
- Version 2.1 of the Spring Boot API
- Version 2.0 of the Java Message Service API
- Version 1.0 of the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP)
1.3. Supported configurations
AMQ Spring Boot Starter supports the following OS and language versions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8 with the following JDKs:
- OpenJDK 8 and 11
- Oracle JDK 8
- IBM JDK 8
- HP-UX 11i with HP-UX JVM 8
- IBM AIX 7.1 with IBM JDK 8
- Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 with Oracle JDK 8
- Microsoft Windows 10 Pro with Oracle JDK 8
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 with Oracle JDK 8
AMQ Spring Boot Starter is supported in combination with the following AMQ components and versions:
- All versions of AMQ Broker
- All versions of AMQ Interconnect
- All versions of AMQ Online
- A-MQ 6 versions 6.2.1 and higher
For more information, see Red Hat AMQ Supported Configurations.
