diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 31bdaf8f..35e23272 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Synopsis AMQP is the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, an open standard protocol for message orientation, queuing, routing, reliability and security. +One of the most popular implementations of AMQP is `RabbitMQ`_. + The aim of `Kombu` is to make messaging in Python as easy as possible by providing a idiomatic high-level interface for producing and consuming messages in Python, and provide tested and proven implementations of common messaging @@ -52,14 +54,16 @@ Features a compatibility layer. +For an introduction to AMQP you should read the article `Rabbits and warrens`_, +and the `Wikipedia article about AMQP`_. + + .. _`RabbitMQ`: http://www.rabbitmq.com/ .. _`AMQP`: http://amqp.org .. _`Redis`: http://code.google.com/p/redis/ .. _`MongoDB`: http://www.mongodb.org/ .. _`CouchDB`: http://couchdb.apache.org/ .. _`Beanstalk`: http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/ -.. _`Python Queue module`: http://docs.python.org/library/queue.html -.. _`Apache ActiveMQ`: http://activemq.apache.org/ .. _`Rabbits and warrens`: http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/2009/01/rabbits-and-warrens/ .. _`amqplib`: http://barryp.org/software/py-amqplib/ .. _`pika`: http://github.com/tonyg/pika