[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq and cpp

[Full Name]

Hi,

I am new to RabbitMQ and to AMQP in general. I didn't find a forum/mailing list for general AMQP questions. Just a forum at amqp.org, but that is kind of dead. I want to exchange messages between Java and c++ applications. The Java tutorials for rabbitmq were easy, but the c++ client is really hard to build.

I watched a couple of amqp videos and it is always mentioned that amqp is a wire protocol just like http, and that that is a big plus (I agree).
So why is there a need for a rabbitmq cpp client and a Apache qpid client etc. in the first place?
Why isn't there only one generic amqp cpp client?

regards

sven