History
AMQP was originated in 2003 by John O'Hara at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London, UK. From the beginning AMQP was conceived as a co-operative open effort. Initial development was by JPMorgan Chase & Co. from mid-2004 to mid-2006 who contracted iMatix Corporation for a C broker and protocol documentation. In 2005 JPMorgan Chase & Co. approached other firms to form a working group that included Cisco Systems, IONA Technologies, iMatix, Red Hat, and TWIST. In the same year JPMorgan Chase & Co. partnered with Red Hat to create Apache Qpid, initially in Java and soon after C++. Independently, RabbitMQ was developed in Erlang by Rabbit Technologies, followed later by the Microsoft and StormMQ implementations.
The working group grew to 23 companies including Bank of America, Barclays, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Börse Systems, Goldman Sachs, HCL Technologies Ltd, Progress Software, IIT Software, INETCO Systems, Informatica Corporation (incl. 29 West), JPMorgan Chase Bank Inc. N.A, Microsoft Corporation, my-Channels, Novell, Red Hat, Inc., Software AG, Solace Systems, StormMQ, Tervela Inc., TWIST Process Innovations ltd, VMware (incl. Rabbit Technologies) and WSO2.
In August 2011, AMQP working group announced its reorganization into an OASIS member section.
AMQP 1.0 was released by the AMQP Working Group on 30 October 2011, at a conference in New York. At the event Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware, Apache, INETCO and IIT Software demonstrated software running the protocol in an interoperability demonstration. The next day, on 1 November 2011, the formation of an OASIS Technical Committee was announced to advance this contributed AMQP version 1.0 through the international open standards process. The first draft from OASIS was released in February 2012, the changes as compared to that published by the Working Group being restricted to edits for improved clarity (no functional changes). The second draft was released for public review on 20 June (again with no functional changes), and AMQP was approved as an OASIS standard on the 31st October, 2012.
Previous versions of AMQP were 0-8, published in June 2006, 0-9, published in December 2006, 0-10 published in February 2008 and 0-9-1, published in November 2008. These earlier releases are significantly different from the final 1.0 specification that emerged. However existing implementations may continue to support these earlier versions alongside 1.0.
Whilst AMQP originated in the financial services industry, it has general applicability to a broad range of middleware problems.
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