[openamq-dev] PAL examples

[Pieter Hintjens]

On 3/30/07, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at imatix.com> wrote:

> As for file transfer, it's currently out of focus as we have no customer
> that requires it. To focus on it, we would need real world use cases,
> real world feedback and of course some funding to actually do the work.

In fact it's probably quite straight-forward to build a file
distribution system as an AMQP application; files would be sent as
frames (messages) of a certain size, say 1Mb, and reassembled at the
receiving end.  There is still the risk of broker queues building up
and causing swapping but this can be prevented by setting limits on
maximum queue sizes and forcing immediate delivery (or discard) of
file frame.

The AMQP broker does not need to act as the file server; this can be
the role of a specialised application which receives files, and
redistributes them on request; both files and requests being sent by
AMQP.

-Pieter