From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-11-10T22:23:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Stomp Client Release

This looks pretty cool. (dumb question ahead) How is it different than
using DRb?

I was planning on writing a quick client server with drb that managed
a resource pool. Would using stomp be a better way to go?

Thanks

On 11/9/05, Brian McCallister <brianm@apache.org> wrote:
> Stomp is a text-oriented wire protocol for messaging (MOM/MQ/JMS)
> type systems. This library provides two useful interfaces, a low-
> level class, Stomp::Connection, which is a basic protocol
> implementation, and Stomp::Client, which is designed as a higher
> level convenience API. More information is available at http://
> stomp.codehaus.org/
>
> This library is a client for the Stomp protocol. A couple servers
> exist, the most mature probably being ActiveMQ ( http://
> activemq.codehaus.org ) and Gozirra ( http://www.germane-software.com/
> software/Java/Gozirra/ ).
>
> While this release is labeled 1.0.0, it is not highly tested yet, so
> bug reports are much appreciated!
>
> -Brian
>
> Installation via gems:
> $ gem install stomp
>
> Some sample code:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'stomp'
>
> # username, password, host, port
> c = Stomp::Client.open "brianm", "s3kr3t", "localhost", 61613
>
> # block will be called for each message received from the destination
> c.subscribe "/queue/sample" do |message|
>    puts "received: #{message.body} on #{message.headers['destination']}"
> end
>
> # send a bunch of stuff  (which we will receive)
> for i in 1..5 do
>    c.send "/queue/sample", "Hello world #{i}!"
> end
>
> # wait (not very long) for delivery
> gets
>
> # done!
> c.close
>
>
>
>


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Jim Freeze