Hi, Myles...<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>1) Is there a development environment guide for the Java client lib? I run Lubuntu, happy to run Eclipse or IdeaJ (or something else?). I realise this is probably obvious to the experienced Java hack but I haven't coded Java commercially for 12+ years so a little behind on how things are setup these days.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>As Java libraries go, the Rabbit Java client is pretty benign, distributed as a simple JAR file with a very small number of dependency JARs. �If you're using Maven for builds, the library is available in the usual Maven repositories. �If you're using Ant or some kind of bespoke IDE build, there are only a small, single digit number of things you need to get on to your classpath.</div>
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<div>2) Can anyone recommend an AMQP abstraction?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What sort of abstraction do you mean? �There's Spring Integration, which provides various Enterprise Integration Patterns. �Also, Spring AMQP provides some handy wrapper services atop the Java client like auto-reconnection. �Those of course require you to either be or be willing to become something of a Spring guy (I'm not much of one).</div>
<div><br></div><div>One of the best starting points would be the Rabbit tutorials on the website, which come in Python and Java flavors... �these cover some core messaging patterns and use cases in a pretty distraction-free way: �<a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-one-java.html">http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-one-java.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Jerry</div><div><br></div></div></div>