ActiveMQ in Action–Chapter 4–Connecting to ActiveMQ

• ActiveMQ provides connectors
• A connectivity mechanism that provides client-to-broker communications
• Using transport connectors
• As well as broker-to-broker communications
• Using network connectors.
• Protocols are general-purpose concepts and connectors are ActiveMQ-specific mechanism.
• But every ActiveMQ connectors implements a specific protocol and is named after it.