Andrew Wu

Since its release in late 1997, the JMS API has established itself as a core component in the Java Enterprise suite. A number of vendors are offering implementations of JMS with one of the latest coming from Ashnasoft Corporation. Although new to JMS, Ashnasoft has brought its experience and a reputation from JTurbo (sold to New Atlanta last year) to the scene. First released in November 2001, the current version (released in February) is AshnaMQ 2.0 Standard Edition. AshnaMQ is a JMS 1.0.2 implementation written purely in Java. It's a product that Ashnasoft claims offers better performance and higher reliability than their competitors. The performance and scalabitity benchmarks and test harness are available from the Ashnasoft Web site. It supports the full range of Java editions - J2SE, J2EE, and J2ME - with good support for mobile messaging solutions. A server-bas... (more)