Smack vs Hermes

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Smack		Hermes
	Project
2	Mentions	2
2,366	Stars	793
0.1%	Growth	1.4%
7.9	Activity	9.0
3 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Smack

Posts with mentions or reviews of Smack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-24.

No XEP-0333 Chat Markers in XMMPP Openfire backend - how did you solve it?
1 project | /r/xmpp | 9 Feb 2023

Is this really impossible without Chat Markers? Do you suggest we switch the server stack to something else? eg. Smack seems to have some support
Zoom: Remote Code Execution with XMPP Stanza Smuggling
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2022

https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/blob/master/smack-xm...
I don't see any opportunity not to block when calling "next"

Hermes

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hermes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-27.

Got fed up with AMQP, so I wrote a HTTP message broker on top of RabbitMQ
8 projects | /r/programming | 27 Mar 2022

Let's draw some parallels in the Kafka ecosystem, in which there are Confluent REST Proxy and Hermes by Allegro. You could say that since Kafka uses a binary protocol over TCP, both of these projects are "moot and useless". Despite that, Allegro aka the Poland's Amazon still maintains that project and uses it in production as a means of HTTP-based communication between their 700+ microservices arguing that it makes their development process easier, since it allows them to abstract away the intricacies of Kafka and use plain HTTP instead.
Tiny message broker written in Go - nothing serious. Born out of COVID-boredom. Would love your suggestions.
10 projects | /r/golang | 23 Dec 2020

well, there is https://github.com/allegro/hermes

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Smack and Hermes you can also consider the following projects:

Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android

Apache Kafka - Mirror of Apache Kafka

Xabber - Open-source XMPP client for Android

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

yaxim - yaxim - a lean XMPP/Jabber client for Android

Embedded RabbitMQ - A JVM library to use RabbitMQ as an embedded service

Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service

Nakadi - A distributed event bus that implements a RESTful API abstraction on top of Kafka-like queues

nats-dart - NATS client for Dart lang

Apache Camel - Apache Camel is an open source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data.

Apache ActiveMQ - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ