When designing Service Oriented Architectures, which one do you use - HTTP or AMQP?
At DEVOXX last year I was cringing when I heard a talk where they went into depth about how to make HTTP work as a SOA layer and kept telling myself ... but AMQP already solved all those issue, why re-invent that with HTTP with layers upon layers of complexity?
HTTP you've probably heard about, if you've never about AMQP, here's a short snippet from Wikipedia:
AMQP is a binary, application layer protocol, designed to efficiently support a wide variety of messaging applications and communication patterns. It provides flow controlled, message-oriented communication with message-delivery guarantees such as at-most-once (where each message is delivered once or never), at-least-once (where each message is certain to be delivered, but may do so multiple times) and exactly-once (where the message will always certainly arrive and do so only once), and authentication and/or encryption based on SASL and/or TLS. It assumes an underlying reliable transport layer protocol such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
The AMQP specification is defined in several layers: (i) a type system, (ii) a symmetric, asynchronous protocol for the transfer of messages from one process to another, (iii) a standard, extensible message format and (iv) a set of standardised but extensible 'messaging capabilities.
And some more reading from the AMQP specifications themselves:
If you've used any of the two, what was your experience?