Fiorano's product was originally the Fiorano Middleware Platform. It was completely rewritten in Java and renamed FioranoMQ , which first shipped in 1998. Fiorano now offers two different JMS products: FioranoMQ Multicast and FioranoMQ Enterprise.
FioranoMQ Multicast is compliant with JMS 1.0.2 and supports the pub/sub JMS messaging model. The server and clients are written in Java and therefore run on any platform with a JDK 1.1 or higher Virtual Machine.
The FioranoMQ Multicast product offers a distributed architecture based on IP multicast. As a distributed architecture, it doesn't require clustering. FioranoMQ Multicast provides a command-line tool for configuring administered objects as well as a administration and monitoring API.
FioranoMQ Multicast does not provide any persistence mechanism for its JMS clients (IP multicast products frequently do not). Only local transactions are supported, so FioranoMQ Multicast cannot participate as a resource in a two-phase commit.
FioranoMQ Enterprise is compliant with JMS 1.0.2 and supports both p2p and the pub/sub JMS messaging models. The server and clients are written in Java and therefore run on any platform with a JDK 1.1 or higher Virtual Machine.
FioranoMQ Enterprise is based on a centralized messaging architecture that uses the hub-and-spoke model. FioranoMQ Enterprise provides a clustering architecture with fault-tolerance, fail-over, and load balancing among servers in the cluster. FioranoMQ Enterprise provides command-line and GUI tools for configuring administered objects as well as an API for administration and monitoring.
Persistence in FioranoMQ is achieved using a proprietary file-based storage system. Only local transactions are supported, so FioranoMQ Enterprise cannot participate as a resource in a two-phase commit.
FioranoMQ products provide HTTP firewall tunneling via SOCKS or HTTP proxies. SSL is supported, including support for client certificates. Additionally, FioranoMQ provides access control for destinations, users, and servers.