Message queuing

[Christopher Browne]

> 
> You are right. We did send back confirmations at the application level...
> We maintained our own audit trails in mySQL.
> So we did most of the work ourselves.
> When all is said and I done I suppose we could have
> used almost any transport mechanism.
> But it did do queuing! You can't deny that!
> 
> I've never had need for Quality of Service in the queuing systems
> I have used (and QOS was sort of a non-issue at BlueLight.)

I'm not so much thinking of measuring different levels of service as I am of 
having guaranteed delivery, which is something you definitely _don't_ get with 
SMTP...

> SOAP::Lite is Perl. What's the matter with you?
> I'd sooner write Java...

The point is that it exists, and that one might look at it to see its merits 
(well, it exists :-)) and its demerits (which are considerable).

> That OpenQueue stuff looks interesting. Although it's Java
> it does not appear to be a Java only interface.
> Last updated nearly two years ago... hmmm... Looks dead.
> What else looks fresh?

The other interesting one doesn't maintain persistent queues; take a look for 
Thomas Gagne's "Isect".
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