[rabbitmq-discuss] Scala remote actors [was Re: Intro]

Sun Aug 19 02:35:35 BST 2007

Steve Jenson wrote:
> I wrote a quick hack to serialize objects into a RabbitMQ cluster using Scala.

That looks pretty neat.

> One thing that's not clear to me from the javadoc is how to keep my
> client processing new messages coming into the queue instead of
> exiting at the end. Am I supposed to wrap the call to
> channel.basicConsume around a busy-loop or is there a better
> mechanism?

Any mechanism that stops the program from terminating will do. So, for 
example, you could spawn a thread and make it wait for something.

Matthias