BAM: Brokered Actor Messaging
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
As part of the Resin 4.0 work, I’ve refactored and renamed the key BAM classes to better describe the architecture and roles. The key classes are SimpleActor and ActorStream.
BAM is a lightweight serializing messaging API, designed for small, bidirectional, interactive messages for applications like SAAS (software as a service) or online gaming. Resin 4.0 uses BAM/HMTP for its clustering protocols, including our distributed caching, JMS, and distributed deployment. BAM is designed to work with multiple wire protocols including HMTP (Hessian Message Transport Protocol) and XMPP (Jabber, eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.)