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<p class="MsoNormal">I have researching Federations and Shovels for a week or so now, but neither seem to fit or work the way I expect them to. Which is probably a misunderstanding on my part of how they were intended to be used.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I want to create a distributed pub\sub messaging system that talks broker to broker in a one to many fashion. In essence, I would like Broker A to publish messages on Queue 1, which, in turn, pushes messages to Broker B and C on Queue 1.
A pub\sub on the broker level.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After reading these Federation notes and reviews:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-federation/file/rabbitmq_v2_5_0_preview/README">http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-federation/file/rabbitmq_v2_5_0_preview/README</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/06/22/federation-plugin-preview-release/">http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/06/22/federation-plugin-preview-release/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/federation.html">http://www.rabbitmq.com/federation.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">, I have come to the, possibly misguided, conclusion that the federation is designed in the reverse. (i.e. Brokers B and C publish to Queue 1 which in turn pushes messages to Broker A on Queue 1) More of a many to one design.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During my research I thought Shovel might have been the answer, but I found the it worked well creating a one to one connection, not one to many.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is this correct, or am I missing something?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have been successful in installing and configuring both of these plugins in a basic configuration, it was the behavior that was unexpected. I have not ruled out misconfiguration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any help would be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jason<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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