Simple (or Streaming) Text Oriented Message Protocol (STOMP), formerly known as TTMP, is a simple

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, designed for working with

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(MOM). It provides an interoperable wire format that allows STOMP clients to talk with any

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supporting the protocol.

Overview

The protocol is broadly similar to

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, and works over TCP using the following commands: *CONNECT *SEND *SUBSCRIBE *UNSUBSCRIBE *BEGIN *COMMIT *ABORT *ACK *NACK *DISCONNECT Communication between client and server is through a "frame" consisting of a number of lines. The first line contains the command, followed by headers in the form : (one per line), followed by a blank line and then the body content, ending in a

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. Communication between server and client is through a MESSAGE, RECEIPT or ERROR frame with a similar format of headers and body content.

Example

SEND destination:/queue/a content-type:text/plain hello queue a ^@

Implementations

Some message-oriented middleware products support STOMP, such as:: * Apache ActiveMQ,
Fuse Message Broker
* HornetQ * Open Message Queue (OpenMQ) *

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* syslog-ng *

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References

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