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Mastering RabbitMQ

By : Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum
Book Image

Mastering RabbitMQ

By: Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is one of the most powerful Open Source message broker software, which is widely used in tech companies such as Mozilla, VMware, Google, AT&T, and so on. RabbitMQ gives you lots of fantastic and easy-to-manage functionalities to control and manage the messaging facility with lots of community support. As scalability is one of our major modern problems, messaging with RabbitMQ is the main part of the solution to this problem This book explains and demonstrates the RabbitMQ server in a detailed way. It provides you with lots of real-world examples and advanced solutions to tackle the scalability issues. You’ll begin your journey with the installation and configuration of the RabbitMQ server, while also being given specific details pertaining to the subject. Next, you’ll study the major problems that our server faces, including scalability and high availability, and try to get the solutions for both of these issues by using the RabbitMQ mechanisms. Following on from this, you’ll get to design and develop your own plugins using the Erlang language and RabbitMQ’s internal API. This knowledge will help you to start with the management and monitoring of the messages, tools, and applications. You’ll also gain an understanding of the security and integrity of the messaging facilities that RabbitMQ provides. In the last few chapters, you will build and keep track of your clients (senders and receivers) using Java, Python, and C#.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering RabbitMQ
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

RabbitMQ Java client API


The RabbitMQ community and its main supporter company, Pivotal, provide an official client library for Java called RabbitMQ Java Client. Client library provides both the publishing of messages and receiving of messages. Moreover, Client library supports both synchronous receiving and asynchronous receiving. The details will be explained in the following topics.

If we look at the main packages of the RabbitMQ Java Client, we can see three packages as shown in the following screenshot:

RabbitMQ Java Client Packages

Let's take a look at the following explanation:

  • com.rabbitmq.client package provides classes and interfaces for AMQP connections, channels, and wire-protocol framing descriptions

  • com.rabbitmq.tools provides classes and methods for non-core utilities and administration tools

  • Lastly, com.rabbitmq.utility provides helper classes which are mostly used in the implementation of a library

As the most important package of the API is Client API, we cover the basics and...