Introduction

» AMQP stands for » Advanced Message Queue Protocol, which is an open standard middleware layer for message routing and queuing. This extension is compatible with any Version 0-8 compatible AMQP broker, such as » RabbitMQ and » OpenAMQ.

This extension relies on the » librabbitmq RPC library for communicating with the AMQP broker. Though named "rabbit", this library is compatible with all Version 0-8 compatible AMQP brokers.