vocabulary: 1.0.0
info:
  provider: AMQP
  description: Normative vocabulary for AMQP messaging concepts covering exchanges, queues, bindings, messages, and routing patterns.
  created: '2026-04-19'
  modified: '2026-04-19'
operational:
  specification:
    name: AMQP
    currentVersion: '1.0'
    legacyVersions:
    - 0-9-1
    - 0-10
    standard: ISO/IEC 19464
    governance: OASIS
  channels:
  - name: orderCreated
    description: 'Publish/subscribe channel for order creation events. Messages are published to a topic exchange and '
  - name: orderProcessing
    description: 'Point-to-point channel for order processing. Messages are sent to a direct exchange and consumed by '
  - name: orderStatusRequest
    description: Request channel for the request/reply pattern. Clients send requests with a reply-to header and corr
  - name: orderStatusReply
    description: 'Reply channel for the request/reply pattern. The server publishes responses to the client-specified '
  - name: notifications
    description: 'Fanout channel for broadcasting notifications to all subscribers. Uses a fanout exchange to deliver '
  messages:
  - name: OrderCreated
  - name: OrderProcess
  - name: OrderStatusRequest
  - name: OrderStatusReply
  - name: Notification
  schemas: []
  concepts:
  - term: Exchange
    definition: Routing entity that receives messages from publishers and routes them to queues based on routing rules.
  - term: Queue
    definition: Buffer that stores messages until they are consumed by a subscriber.
  - term: Binding
    definition: Rule linking an exchange to a queue with an optional routing key.
  - term: Routing Key
    definition: Message attribute used by exchanges to determine which queues receive a message.
  - term: Acknowledgment
    definition: Confirmation signal sent by consumer to broker indicating successful message processing.
  - term: Channel
    definition: Virtual connection within an AMQP connection for multiplexing message streams.
  - term: Virtual Host
    definition: Logical grouping of resources within a broker providing namespace isolation.
  - term: Dead Letter Exchange
    definition: Exchange that receives messages that cannot be delivered to any queue.
  - term: Publisher
    definition: Application that sends messages to exchanges.
  - term: Consumer
    definition: Application that receives messages from queues.
  exchangeTypes:
  - name: direct
    description: Routes messages to queues whose binding key exactly matches the routing key.
  - name: fanout
    description: Routes messages to all bound queues regardless of routing key.
  - name: topic
    description: Routes messages to queues based on wildcard pattern matching of routing keys.
  - name: headers
    description: Routes messages based on message header attributes instead of routing key.
implementations:
- name: RabbitMQ
  protocol: AMQP 0-9-1
  url: https://www.rabbitmq.com
- name: Apache ActiveMQ
  protocol: AMQP 1.0
  url: https://activemq.apache.org
- name: Apache Qpid
  protocol: AMQP 1.0
  url: https://qpid.apache.org
- name: Azure Service Bus
  protocol: AMQP 1.0
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/service-bus
- name: Red Hat AMQ
  protocol: AMQP 1.0
  url: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/jboss-middleware/amq
- name: rhea
  protocol: AMQP 1.0
  url: https://github.com/amqp/rhea
  language: JavaScript