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RabbitMQ Cookbook

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RabbitMQ Cookbook

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software (sometimes called message-oriented middleware) that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). The RabbitMQ server is written in the Erlang programming language and is built on the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering and failover. Messaging enables software applications to connect and scale. Applications can connect to each other as components of a larger application or to user devices and data. RabbitMQ Cookbook touches on all the aspects of RabbitMQ messaging. You will learn how to use this enabling technology for the solution of highly scalable problems dictated by the dynamic requirements of Web and mobile architectures, based for example on cloud computing platforms. This is a practical guide with several examples that will help you to understand the usefulness and the power of RabbitMQ. This book helps you learn the basic functionalities of RabbitMQ with simple examples which describe the use of RabbitMQ client APIs and how a RabbitMQ server works. You will find examples of RabbitMQ deployed in real-life use-cases, where its functionalities will be exploited combined with other technologies. This book helps you understand the advanced features of RabbitMQ that are useful for even the most demanding programmer. Over the course of the book, you will learn about the usage of basic AMQP functionalities and use RabbitMQ to let decoupled applications exchange messages as per enterprise integration applications. The same building blocks are used to implement the architecture of highly scalable applications like today's social networks, and they are presented in the book with some examples. You will also learn how to extend RabbitMQ functionalities by implementing Erlang plugins. This book combines information with detailed examples coupled with screenshots and diagrams to help you create a messaging application with ease.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
RabbitMQ Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using SSL


Whenever the RabbitMQ broker is exposed to the Internet, it is highly advisable to protect the connections by using the SSL library.

RabbitMQ does not implement SSL by itself, but it uses the certificate mechanism of the given language, Erlang for the server and Java, .NET, or whatever for the clients.

Here, we will see how to have a basic protection with SSL, that is, how to encrypt the connections from the RabbitMQ clients to the broker.

This is enough to avoid simple security attacks. With no SSL, usernames and passwords are sent just in clear through the network.

Getting ready

The current example has the following prerequisites:

  • A Linux OS hosting the RabbitMQ broker

  • openssl Linux package

  • The latest Erlang distribution—at least R14B

  • Java JDK on the client, either on Linux or Windows

We have chosen to limit this recipe to just Linux on the server side because on Windows, there are too many version combinations—some with limited or no functionality at all. It is a good idea to run your...