Peter Ledbrook
RabbitMQ Plugin for Grails – Early Access
RabbitMQ is a lightweight, reliable, scalable and portable message broker based on the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP). It's ideal for heterogeneous systems and cloud platforms, but it can be used for pretty much any messaging requirements, big or small. You don't (typically) access it via the JMS API, and in fact the JMS plugin Read more…
(Secure) File Transfer, the Only Way to Fly…err Copy
There are many ways to skin a cat. Many applications today rely on messaging (AMQP, JMS) to bridge the gap between disparate systems and data. Others rely on RPC (typically web-services, or REST). For a great many applications, however, file transfer is very much a way of life! There are several common ways of supporting Read more…
Building RabbitMQ apps using Python
RabbitMQ is a powerful messaging broker based on the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP). Thanks to the neutral nature of the AMQP spec, it is easy to connect to it from many platforms, including Python. In this blog entry, we will: Create a simple stock ticker Python application Create a brokerage Python application that decides Read more…
Spring GemFire 1.0.0.M1 released for Java and .NET
I am happy to announce the first milestone release of the Spring GemFire project, the newest member in the Spring family. Spring GemFire (for short SGF) brings the Spring concepts and programming model to GemFire, SpringSource's distributed data management platform. The release is available for both Java and .NET. The features in 1.0.0.M1 include: declarative Read more…
Peter Ledbrook
Understanding AMQP, the protocol used by RabbitMQ
table { margin-bottom: 1em; } table, tr, th, td { border: 1px solid #DDD; border-collapse: collapse; } th, td { padding: 5px 10px; } Update I changed the first paragraph to clarify the relationship between RabbitMQ and JMS. RabbitMQ is a lightweight, reliable, scalable and portable message broker. But unlike many message brokers familiar to Read more…
Uploading Job Configurations to Spring Batch Admin
An interesting problem that has no universal good solution is: how do I change the configuration of a running Spring application? Spring Batch Admin 1.0.0.M3 was released recently, and it has a configuration upload feature that solves this problem in a particular way. Someone asked for this feature at the recent S2GForum in Munich (if Read more…
Using UDP and TCP Adapters in Spring Integration 2.0 M3
The UDP and TCP channel adapters introduced in Spring Integration 2.0 Milestone 3 provide lightweight communication either between two or more Spring Integration applications, or between a Spring Integration application and some other platform. Following on from Oleg's blog about the Loan Broker, I use the same example to show how to use the new Read more…
Spring Integration 2.0 Milestone 3 Released
The 3rd development milestone for Spring Integration 2.0 was released last week (download it here). If you have read Oleg's recent blog, you already know that we have started working on a new reference sample implementation based on the "Loan Broker" example that plays a significant role in Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf's Enterprise Integration Read more…
EIP 'Loan Broker' Reference Implementation (Part 1)
We are pleased to announce the first installment of the 'Loan Broker' Reference Implementation. 'Loan Broker' concept has become a de-facto reference domain for showcasing Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) – by Gregor Hohpe ad Bobby Woolf, and this installment of the Loan Broker RI demonstrates how Enterprise Integration Patterns are realized and applied using Spring Read more…
