Message queueing

[holger krekel]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:39:51PM +0200, Etienne Labuschagne wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I have looked at Pyro, but since the system is going
> to be very loosely coupled I will need features such as guaranteed message
> delivery that queues offer.  This means that if a producer creates a message
> and puts it in the queue while a message consumer is not online, it should
> keep the message until the consumer comes online.  The queue then delivers
> the message.  If the queue machine itself dies, then the message will still
> not be lost, because messages are stored in persistant storage.

pyro might not be right, then. I don't know though if pyro's EventService could
be extended for this usage. 

Anyway, are you looking for a full-blown solution ala MQSeries (IBM)? 
Might i ask what your use cases and performance requirements
(throughput & latency) are? 

regards,

    holger