How to create a simple Messaging Application using RabbitMQ 2 and Maven

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Having read an interesting comparison by Lindenlabs evaluating modern message broker systems like ActiveMQ, ApacheQpid and amongst others – RabbitMQ – I wanted to take a quick look at the last one and built a small application producing and consuming some sample messages.

If you need some lecture on getting started with RabbitMQ or the key concepts of messaging I strongly recommend reading this list of introductional articles from the RabbitMQ homepage.

AMQP and RabbitMQ Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

rabbitmqctl

Create admin user with full host permissions

# create new user named 'theadmin'
rabbitmqctl add_user theadmin thepassword

# make 'theadmin' admin
rabbitmqctl set_user_tags theadmin administrator

# give 'theadmin' permissions for all hosts
rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / theadmin ".*" ".*" ".*"

AMQP Exchange Types

1. Fanout Exchange

Description: A fanout exchange routes messages to all of the queues that are bound to it. It doesn’t take the routing key into consideration. Instead, it simply broadcasts the message to all bound queues.

Rabbitmq on Micha Kops' Tech Notes

How to create a simple Messaging Application using RabbitMQ 2 and Maven

AMQP and RabbitMQ Snippets

rabbitmqctl

Create admin user with full host permissions

AMQP Exchange Types

1. Fanout Exchange