Chapter 1, Working with AMQP, introduces the basic concepts of AMQP, the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, on which RabbitMQ is based. It shows how the fire-and-forget messaging model works and how to use it from clients.

Chapter 2, Going beyond the AMQP Standard, covers the RabbitMQ extensions of AMQP and how they can be used to increase the efficiency of messaging applications.

Chapter 3, Managing RabbitMQ, explains how to configure RabbitMQ parameters, enable RabbitMQ plugins, and monitor RabbitMQ activities.

Chapter 4, Mixing Different Technologies, covers the integration of different technologies with other protocols, such as MQTT, STOMP, and JSON.

Chapter 5, Using RabbitMQ in Web Applications, shows how to develop web applications with RabbitMQ as a service bus.

Chapter 6, Developing Scalable Applications, explains how to create scalable and robust applications using RabbitMQ clustering.

Chapter 7, Developing High-availability Applications, covers the high-availability options offered by RabbitMQ.

Chapter 8, Performance Tuning for RabbitMQ, explains how to optimize the performance of applications based on RabbitMQ in different scenarios.

Chapter 9, Extending RabbitMQ Functionality, covers the use and development of RabbitMQ plugins.

Chapter 10, RabbitMQ on AWS, explains how to deploy RabbitMQ applications on Amazon Web Services.

Chapter 11, AMQP and Cloud Computing – RabbitMQ on PaaS, explains how to deploy and use RabbitMQ on Cloud Foundry.

Chapter 12, Managing RabbitMQ Error Conditions, explains how to diagnose and deal with RabbitMQ error conditions.

You can use Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, or Windows as the operating system since RabbitMQ is cross-platform middleware. Most of the examples have been developed in Java, but to execute other recipes, you will also need:

The RabbitMQ Cookbook also covers the cloud computing world (both IaaS and PaaS). To utilize the respective chapters, you will need an account on:

The RabbitMQ Cookbook is for software developers who want to develop distributed applications based on messaging. It’s assumed that the reader has some experience with multithreaded applications and distributed applications.

The reader should also know the basic concepts of web and cloud applications in order to follow the recipes specifically.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, are shown as follows: “Properly configure CLASSPATH and your preferred development environment”.

A block of code is set as follows:

ConnectionFactory factory = new ConnectionFactory();
String uri=”amqp://user:pass@hostname:port/vhost”;
factory.setUri(uri);

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

java -cp ./bin  rmqexample.Publish [Rabbitmq-host]

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: “Configure the host by navigating to Edit configuration | services | endpoint | new.”

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