AMQP in 10 mins - update
November 7th, 2008 | Published in AMQP | Add to del.icio.us
A lot of folks have asked me as to why I have not written the next part in the series after Oct,2007. So I think I owe an explanation.
I guess I started the series a bit early, and at that time the protocol was going through a phase of rapid changes. So I decided to wait until the dust has settled, as there is no point in writing about something that may change within a short time. However it took the working group a bit longer than expected to thrash out the 0-10 version.
Now the AMQP working group is working towards a 1.0 release. So I think it would be worthwhile to wait until we have firmed up the 1.0 spec as it makes sense to write about a final 1.0 release than an interim version. I don’t expect a lot to change between 0-10 and 1.0, and most changes would be to remove certain unnecessary complexity in the 0-10 version and also to incorporate any feedback from the folks who worked on implementing the 0-10 version.