[rabbitmq-discuss] Scalable multithreaded consumer

Thu Jan 31 15:11:30 GMT 2008

Hi Karel,

Karel Alfonso wrote:
> In my solution each message means "poll the pop3 account of user XYZ for new
> mails", that's right. So this is a solution where I need thousands of
> clients/consumers to poll a POP3 account for a specific user.

RabbitMQ's Java library and Erlang broker should have no trouble with
that kind of solution - unless there was some showstopper you've found
that I haven't thought of?

Can you tell us more about the surrounding environment - for instance,
is Spring an important part of your total application?

Regards,
  Tony
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