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Messaging Links

HermesJMS

Link	Description
Spring and JMS	An interesting article on Spring and JMS that uses Hermes.
ActiveMQ and Hermes	Hermes page on the ActiveMQ project.
ActiveMQ and Hermes Tutorial	A step by step guide by Stephen Pasco

JMS

Link	Description
JMS Tutorial	The Sun JMS tutorial, a good starting point for those new to JMS
Specifications	The specifications, source and javadoc.

AMQP

Link	Description
AMQP	AMQP is a wire level protocol for messaging
RabbitMQ	RabbitMQ is a stable and quick AMQP implementation built with Erlang

ESB

Link	Description
Mule	Mule is a quick to learn and powerful ESB
Mule Case Study	Eugene Ciurana talks about his experiences of Mule at Walmart.
WSO2	A commercial ESB based on Apache Synapse with improved management and monitoring.
ServiceMix	A JBI compliant container currently under Apache incubation

General Messaging and EAI

Link	Description
Integration Patterns	Gregor Hopes' interesting site on common, and not so common, integration patterns.
FIX Protocol	FIX is a commonly used protocol for financial messaging.
WebSphereMQ Reasons Codes	Esssential reference for understanding WebSphereMQ error messages.

Open Source FIX

Link	Description
QuickFIX/J	The pure Java open source FIX engine
CohesiveFT	Pioneering virtual appliances
Marketcetera	An OMS and related tools using QuickFIX/J
Log4FIX	A FIX log reader that has some similar functionality to HermesJMS FIX support

Next Generation Messaging

Link	Description
Tervela	Enterprise middleware finally starts to meet the metal. This could be the next generation?
29 West	A very nice workgroup peer to peer multicast toolkit. This is a good read

Forums

Link	Description
Sun JMS Forum	A lot of people new to JMS ask questions here.
MQSeries.net Forum	Excellent informative site about WebSphereMQ.