I may not have a lot to add, but I did read the AMQP and SEDA specifications out of curiousity. In my opinion, it's quicker (and oddly pleasant) to craft something out of a formal specification, than to work on your own protocol. How does it go? "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." You need a framing protocol, and I would get to work implementing AMQP right away. Then later, or simultaneously, abstract AMQP into one of the JBoss remoting system. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979158#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...