It might not be quite as fast as OpenWire (though should beat STOMP) but I wonder if it might be interesting creating a Protocol Buffer transport; using the current OpenWire beans as input to generate the .proto file for Protocol Buffer...
http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html there's currently generated Java, C++ and Python code - and they do seem quite good at interop across message versions etc (as its kinda key-value pairs under the covers). I've raised a JIRA for this https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-1843 -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration http://open.iona.com
