JBoss Messaging 2.0 beta released

The messaging team are pleased to announce the release of JBoss Messaging 2.0 beta.

JBoss Messaging 2.0 brings astonishing performance and a huge feature set, in an all-new architecture.

With a focus on usability we've provided an extensive, easy-to-understand user-manual and quick-start guide and we ship with over 50 ready-to-run examples out of the box, demonstrating everything from simple JMS usage to complex clusters of servers.

Here are just a few of the highlights:

* Elegant POJO based design with minimal third party dependencies: Run JBoss Messaging 2.0 as a stand-alone messaging broker, run it in integrated in your favourite JEE application server, or run it embedded inside your own application.

* Incredible performance. Our unique ultra-high performance journal provides never seen before persistent messaging performance. Our NIO transport using Netty provides great performance on the wire.

* Huge feature set - all the features you'd expect in any serious messaging system, and others you won't find anywhere else.

* Massively flexible clustering

* Seamless high availability.

* Huge message support.

* Extensive management API.

* I could go on...

JBM 2.0 beta will be included in EAP 5.0 as a technology preview. We hope to release GA within the next couple of months.

Later releases of JBM 2 will be included as the Java messaging broker in JBoss EAP and JBoss SOA-P .

Thanks to the team (Andy, Clebert, Jeff and Howard) for the Herculean effort, against the odds, they have made in getting us to this point!

Here are some links:

Quick start guide:
User manual:
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