%entities; ]> Introduction The Java Broker is a powerful open-source message broker that implements all versions of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). The Java Broker is actually one of two message brokers provided by the Apache Qpid project: the Java Broker and the C++ Broker. This document relates to the Java Broker. The C++ Broker is described separately. Headline features 100% Java implementation - runs on any platform supporting Java 1.6 or higher Messaging clients support in Java, C++, Python. JMS 1.1 compliance (Java client). Transient and persistent message support Supports for all common messaging patterns (point-to-point, publish/subscribe, fan-out etc). Transaction support including XA XA provided by AMQP 0-10 and above Supports for all versions of the AMQP protocol Automatic translation between the AMQP protocols allowing clients using different AMQP versions to communicate Pluggable authentication architecture with out-of-the-box support for Kerberos, LDAP, External, and file-based authentication mechanisms. Pluggable message store architecture with implementations based on Apache Derby, Oracle BDB Oracle BDB JE JAR must be downloaded separately. , and Memory Store Web based management interface and programmatic management interfaces via REST and JMX APIs. SSL support High availability (HA) support HA currently available to users of the BDB-store only