Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol

Simple (or Streaming) Text Oriented Message Protocol (STOMP), formerly known as TTMP, is a simple text-based protocol, designed for working with message-oriented middleware (MOM). It provides an interoperable wire format that allows STOMP clients to talk with any message broker supporting the protocol.

Overview

The protocol is broadly similar to HTTP, and works over TCP using the following commands:

• CONNECT
• SEND
• SUBSCRIBE
• UNSUBSCRIBE
• BEGIN
• COMMIT
• ABORT
• ACK
• NACK
• DISCONNECT

Communication between client and server is through a "frame" consisting of a number of lines. The first line contains the command, followed by headers in the form <key>: <value> (one per line), followed by a blank line and then the body content, ending in a null character. Communication between server and client is through a MESSAGE, RECEIPT or ERROR frame with a similar format of headers and body content.

Example

SEND
destination:/queue/a
content-type:text/plain

hello queue a
^@

Implementations

Some message-oriented middleware products support STOMP, such as::

• Apache ActiveMQ,
• Fuse Message Broker
• HornetQ
• Open Message Queue (OpenMQ)
• RabbitMQ
• syslog-ng
• Spring Framework