Message broker is an intermediary program that translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the receiver in a telecommunication network where programs communicate by exchanging formally-defined messages.

Pattern

Message Broker is an architectural pattern for message routing.^[1]

List of Message broker software

• Apache ActiveMQ
• Comverse Message Broker (Comverse Technology)
• eSCL Message Broker^[2] (Interface & Control Systems)
• FUSE Message Broker (enterprise ActiveMQ)
• Financial Fusion Message Broker (Sybase)
• JBoss Messaging (JBoss)
• Microsoft BizTalk Server^[3] (Microsoft)
• Oracle Message Broker (Oracle Corporation)
• Proteus an open source^[4] implementation by Info-Scape
• WebSphere Message Broker (IBM)
• webMethods Message Broker^[5] (webMethods Message Broker)
• Cloverleaf (E-novation Lifeline)
• SAP PI^[6] (SAP AG)
• Python Message Service^[7]

See also

• Publish/subscribe
• Comparison of business integration software
• Message-oriented middleware

Footnotes

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