Message queueing

[Scherer, Bill]

Hello, and welcome to Python.

Take a look at spread, www.spread.org, and the recently released 
Python module for it at http://www.python.org/other/spread/ .

I not certain it's exacty a 'message queue', but it may work for 
you.

- Bill

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Etienne Labuschagne wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> I am new to this group and could not find an answer after a Google
> search, so please bear with me if this question was already asked.
> 
> I need to build a distributed app and I am wondering which message queue
> to use and if anyone has any experience with interfacing to them in
> general.
> 
> I have played around a bit with Microsoft's using pythonwin to connect
> to the COM objects and although this works,  I want to be platform
> independent if at all possible.  I am looking into using JMS (Java
> Message Queue) using Jython and this seems to be a viable alternative.
> I do not want to be restricted only to Jython as my preference lies with
> using Python (CPython).  How am I going to get CPython to talk to
> something written in Java?
> 
> So far I have created an XML-RPC "bridge" so that my CPython code can
> talk to my Jython based JMS connector.  This entails creating an XML-RPC
> server on both sides (for calls and call-backs) but this feels a bit
> kludgey.
> 
> Any suggestions? 
> 
> Thanks 
> Etienne 
> 
> 

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