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authorJonathan Robie <jonathan@apache.org>2010-11-22 16:51:17 +0000
committerJonathan Robie <jonathan@apache.org>2010-11-22 16:51:17 +0000
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Added information on documentation and overview of Qpid.
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+This distribution contains the Python client libraries for Apache Qpid.
+
+Apache Qpid is a high-speed, language independent, platform
+independent enterprise messaging system. It currently provides two
+messaging brokers (one implemented in C++, one implemented in Java),
+and messaging client libraries for Java JMS, C++, C# .NET, Python,
+Ruby, and WCF. The messaging protocol for Apache Qpid is AMQP
+(Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). You can read more about Qpid
+here:
+
+ http://qpid.apache.org/
+
+Documentation can be found here:
+
+ http://qpid.apache.org/documentation.html
+
= GETTING STARTED =
1. Make sure the Qpid Python client libraries are on your PYTHONPATH:
@@ -11,14 +27,12 @@ $ export PYTHONPATH=/home/me/qpid-0.8/python
$ ./hello
Hello world!
-
= EXAMPLES =
The examples/api directory contains several examples.
Read examples/README.txt for further details on these examples.
-
= RUNNING THE TESTS =
The "tests" directory contains a collection of unit tests for the