HornetQ production ready?

[daggerrz]

Hi,

Contgrats on getting HornetQ out! I think the community is well off getting another easily embeddable message broker. We currently use ActiveMQ and have been for years, but seem to run into critical bugs on a regular basis (currently, https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-1807). Because of this, we're constantly looking for alternatives. :)

How mature would you say the HornetQ codebase is? Is it running in any production environments right now?

Our needs are very basic - we just need an embedded transactional message broker with configurable redelivery policies.

Cheers!

[clebert.suconic]

As any Beta we wouldn't recommend for production, unless you test it well and make sure the system is stable for your use case.

[ataylor]

As Clebert has already said any beta would need to be tested thoroughly by yourselves, however it is very easily embeddable, take a look at http://hornetq.blogspot.com/2009/09/hornetq-simple-example-using-maven.html.

we also have configurable redelivery semantics, take a look at http://hornetq.sourceforge.net/docs/hornetq-2.0.0.BETA5/user-manual/en/html_single/index.html#undelivered-messages

[daggerrz]

Sorry for the late response to this - email notification doesn't seem to work. :)

Thanks for the reply - of course beta software must be treated as beta software, I was more interested in the general maturity of the project. Messaging systems have a lot of corner cases and are hard to do right, as ActiveMQ has shown. ;) The architecture of ActiveMQ is great, but they have been slapping new features on it all the time instead of making sure the basic things work.

Anyways, we'll take a look!

[ataylor]

Ok, well HornetQ has some history behind it going back a few years now to about 2006, previously JBoss Messaging. We have spent a lot of effort making sure we cover as much as possible from a functionality point of view without ignoring quality issues so we reckon the product is pretty strong.

Any feedback would be much appreciated and if you have any issues at all we can usually help you out and fix them pretty quickly.

[hiskill3]

Any idea when a release version is expected?

[clebert.suconic]

"hiskill3" wrote:
Any idea when a release version is expected?

It's not a promise.. but we are trying for 4 or 6 weeks