Message Queueing

[Juan Carlos CORUÑA]

jcc at ibdosnorte.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Juan_Carlos_CORU=D1A?=) wrote in message news:<a230569c.0207080150.18a1e131 at posting.google.com>...
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to this group but not to python.
> 
> I'm testing different solutions to implement message queueing between
> Zope (http://www.zope.org), that is written in python, and the
> Navision ERP (http://www.navision.com), that supports COM (I will try
> to develop a Visual Basic dll to interface with the selected message
> queueing system). So, I need a message queueing system with bindings
> to python and visual basic/COM.
> 
> At the moment I have checked the following MOMs:
> - Spread (http://www.spread.org): Does not implement message queueing.
> Active project.
> 
> - Open3 (http://www.open3.org): Does not have python bindings yet and
> uses JMS that is very complicated. No news on their web since January,
> is it active?
> 
> - Isectd (http://pweb.netcom.com/~tgagne/index.html): Does not
> implement queues, and seems to be not very active. Not visual
> basic/COM bindings.
> 
> - Jabber (http://www.jabber.org): queues?
> 
> - MUSCLE (http://www.lcscanada.com/muscle/index.html): Does not
> support queueing. Does not have Visual Basic/COM bindings. Active
> project.
> 
> - OpenQueue (http://openqueue.sourceforge.net/): Last update on July,
> 2000.
> 
> - OSE (http://ose.sourceforge.net/): Only libraries. Must make a big
> effort to implement such a solution.
> 
> - SwiftMQ (http://www.swiftmq.com/): uses JMS, not open source.
> 
> - XMLBlaster (http://www.xmlblaster.org/): uses CORBA and xml-rpc. I
> tested it some time ago with poor results. Maybe someone can give me a
> better opinion.
> 
> - XmlMom (http://www.xmlmom.org/): Young project. Last update May.
> Robustness? I tried to test it, but since it requires a lot of third
> party libraries, that I must install apart, I gave up. Maybe, someone
> can tell me about this program.
> 
> 
> In my opinion, Open3, XmlMom and XMLBlaster are the best options. 
> I have tested Open3 and developed some programs in python that
> implements part of JMS, since Open3 uses JMS. And, now before
> continuing the development of the python bindings to open3, since it
> implies to create a JMS implementation in python, I like to hear the
> opinions of people in the same situations.

Sorry, XmlMom includes all the necessary third party libraries ready to build.