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"It’s a JMS broker, so the fact that it can allow for asynchronous communication is valuable.""I'm impressed, I think that Active MQ is great.""The most important feature is that it's best for JVM-related languages and JMS integration.""The initial setup is straightforward and only takes a few minutes.""It provides the best support services.""The most valuable feature of this solution is the holding and forwarding.""Most people or many people recommended using ActiveMQ on small and medium-scale applications.""I appreciate many features including queue, topic, durable topic, and selectors. I also value a different support for different protocols such as MQTT and AMQP. It has full support for EIP, REST, Message Groups, UDP, and TCP."

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"It allows non-technical users to inspect their individual components within the total infrastructure without disturbing other components and without bothering the technical teams.""The administration piece makes it very easy to do MQ administration. It gives us a lot more flexibility and capabilities.""Monitoring that ties into our incident management system""We have easily created use case testing harnesses for specific flows that incorporate various message types.""It's what we use for monitoring our MQ system, so the features that they provide are just really, really good.""It has role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems."

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"I would rate the stability a five out of ten because sometimes it gets stuck, and we have to restart it. We""One potential area would be the complexity of the initial setup.""Needs to focus on a certain facet and be good at it, instead of handling support for most of the available message brokers.""Distributed message processing would be a nice addition.""Message Management: Better management of the messages. Perhaps persist them, or put in another queue with another life cycle.""The tool needs to improve its installation part which is lengthy. The product is already working on that aspect so that the complete installation gets completed within a month.""This solution could improve by providing better documentation.""It would be great if it is included as part of the solution, as Kafka is doing. Even though the use case of Kafka is different, If something like data extraction is possible, or if we can experiment with partition tolerance and other such things, that will be great."

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"We desire a dashboard that could accumulate BOQ lengths per tenant on one screen for all tenants.""The UI can be cumbersome - but we are still using the Viper interface and we have not had the time to check out the Alloy interface which is supposed to be much improved.""The user interface could be sexier and more ergonomic. The competing products have similar problems.""Some of the graphics in the interface could be improved. It's pretty basic. Some interfaces are not up to what you're used to seeing on other, more Windows-like tools.""We are still working with the FTE/MFT subscription monitoring and reporting functionality. That is an area in which we would like to see further development taking place.""One area where they could improve is with their documentation. Some sections are not up to date with new release information and providing additional samples in some areas would be very helpful."

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  • "I use open source with standard Apache licensing."
  • "It’s open source, ergo free."
  • "I think the software is free."
  • "We are using the open-source version, so we have not looked at any pricing."
  • "There are no fees because it is open-source."
  • "We use the open-source version."
  • "ActiveMQ is open source, so it is free to use."
  • "The tool's pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions."
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  • "Because the licensing is at the QMGR level, you need to have at least a small cushion of licenses for occasional enterprise needs."
  • "Our internal budget calculation model incorporates the pricing per endpoint for any new projects. However, as our footprint for distributed queue managers shrinks as part of our shared middleware hub deployment, the initial licensing and support costs have been reduced over the last five years."
  • "Avada Software's licensing metric is very good because the license fees are based on the number of connections (which have not increased for us very much over the years) rather than the CPU processing power (which increases significantly whenever our hardware is upgraded) or the number of users (which has increased for us a lot since our original purchase)."
  • "Start small, then increase licensing later as per your demand."
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    Top Answer:The ability to store the failed events for some time is valuable.
    Top Answer:Everybody is now moving from ActiveMQ to Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ. Apache Kafka is much higher in terms of scalability and stability; it's way ahead. So, there is room for improvement in terms of… more »
    Top Answer:We used it for communication between microservices. For example, if service one makes an update and service two needs to be aware of it, and it doesn't need to be synchronous, it can handle that later… more »
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    Overview

    Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server.

    Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under the Apache 2.0 License

    Avada Software specializes in Enterprise Middleware solutions. Founded by some pioneers in SOA, MQ and J2EE technology, Avada’s Flagship product, Infrared360, is a holistic & innovative private cloud enabled portal providing self-service administration, monitoring, load testing, auditing & statistical reporting for Enterprise Middleware including IBM’s middleware stack of MQ, IIB (message broker), WAS, and Datapower, as well as other applications servers such as  JBoss, TC Server, Weblogic, and other messaging technologies such as Tibco EMS and Kafka*.

    Accessed via any web browser on any device, Infrared360 is a single web application, yet scales to 2500+ endpoints without deploying anything (no agents, no scripts) to those endpoints.

    Using trusted ‘spaces’ and delegated visibility and control, the portal uniquely provides different business units or even different application users virtual ‘spaces’ in which to work.  Within those spaces are only the objects and resources the user has been granted visibility.  Role policy dictates permissions on those resources.

    It is the ONLY Enterprise Messaging Solution with a built in SOA engine that lets you leverage internal and external services for managing and correcting problems within your middleware messaging environment.                 

      *Kafka coming soon 

    Sample Customers
    University of Washington, Daugherty Systems, CSC, STG Technologies, Inc. 
    USBank, Southwest Airlines, Visiting Nurse Services of New York, Aon Hewitt, Parker Hannifin,  Cantonal Bank of Zurich (ZKB), Hagemeyer NA, and many others
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    Financial Services Firm42%
    Transportation Company17%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Financial Services Firm32%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government6%
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    Financial Services Firm73%
    Government27%
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    Financial Services Firm33%
    Insurance Company11%
    Transportation Company8%
    Computer Software Company6%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
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    ActiveMQ is ranked 3rd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 23 reviews while Avada Software Infrared360 is ranked 65th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. ActiveMQ is rated 7.8, while Avada Software Infrared360 is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of ActiveMQ writes "Allows for asynchronous communication, enabling services to operate independently but issues with stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Avada Software Infrared360 writes "An offsite team performs a daily infrastructure health check and sends reports to the technical/management teams. ". ActiveMQ is most compared with IBM MQ, Anypoint MQ, Red Hat AMQ, VMware RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka, whereas Avada Software Infrared360 is most compared with IBM MQ and Dynatrace.

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