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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

Developing new plugins – attaching to a relational database with ODBC


In the previous recipes, we have seen how to use some existing plugins and what can be performed with them. Now, we are going to see how to develop a new plugin for our custom usage.

Note that this should not be a typical practice. Most of the operations can, and usually are, performed with the RabbitMQ/AMQP client API.

However, it is sometimes necessary to perform some customization in the broker heart. This is done for optimization or because of the need to strictly monitor the broker actions themselves.

In this recipe, we will show how to let RabbitMQ consume messages and store them in a relational database by using the ODBC driver.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need RabbitMQ and PostgreSQL. However, this recipe can be easily adapted to almost every relational database, given the widespread availability of ODBC drivers. Furthermore, we need to have Mercurial (http://mercurial.selenic.com/) installed, which is the versioning...