Cross-platform, cross-language messaging system?

Question

I\'m developing a set of applications that work together to create a system for processing metering data. There\'s several reasons I want to have them loosely coupled and the sy

Answer 1

As Paul mentioned, try ActiveMQ which supports many language clients and wire protocols.

BTW ActiveMQ 6.x will probably be using Google's protocol buffers as one of its underlying wire transports :)

I've used Apache ActiveMQ on many projects to great success. Its the most popular and powerful open source message broker around today.

Incidentally on .Net / C# the ActiveMQ project has created the NMS API which is a standard API for communicating with message brokers on the .Net platform which is now integrated into Spring.Net