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Kevin Rave
Kevin Rave

Reputation: 14426

AMQP - Rabbit MQ usage

This may be a very basic question. But I am bit confused.

I know RabbitMQ is a AMQP broker (meaning RabbitMQ implements / uses AMQP). I used client libraries (jars) provided by RabbitMQ. Does it mean I used AMQP protocol which is used "internally" by RabbitMQ client APIs / libraries to connect to the RabbitMQ broker? Anything else I need to know about using AMQP?

Or is there a different route I need to follow to use AMQP? How is a developer concerned about using AMQP other than just using the APIs of the any Message Broker like RabbitMQ, Apache QPid, etc?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 343

Answers (1)

Random42
Random42

Reputation: 9159

I used client libraries (jars) provided by RabbitMQ. Does it mean I used AMQP protocol which is used "internally" by RabbitMQ client APIs / libraries to connect to the RabbitMQ broker?

Yes you have used AMQP protocol (probably); RabbitMQ isn't using internally AMQP. It uses AMQP to send messages from your application to RabbitMQ and from RabbitMQ to (your) other application; or viceversa.

Or is there a different route I need to follow to use AMQP?

Besides using the API you can use as an extension of Apache Camel or Spring Integration for example; it is more neat and you can use it in more parts of your application. Actually it doesn't matter how you using so long you respect the protocol.

How is a developer concerned about using AMQP other than just using the APIs of the any Message Broker like RabbitMQ, Apache QPid, etc?

AMQP is a protocol, just like HTTP; besides the API it defines the message format and has features as routing or queuing being served by the protocol rather by the application implementing the API.

Upvotes: 3

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