[rabbitmq-discuss] Administering Rabbit exchanges and queues

[Ben Hood]

Thanks for picking that one Matthias.

John, please find my comments inline.

Ben

On 11 Jan 2008, at 13:44, Matthias Radestock wrote:

> Ben,
>
> I suspect you meant to send this to the discuss list rather than amq at lshift.net 
> .
>
> Matthias.
>
> Ben Hood wrote:
>> John,
>> On 11 Jan 2008, at 12:12, John Watson wrote:
>>> I'll certainly do that.  But I think Ben was saying that his  
>>> approach is
>>> currently limited to what's exposed in rabbit_access_control so it  
>>> shows
>>> me nothing new as far as I can tell.
>> The approach is only limited to rabbit_access_control by virtue of  
>> the fact that that's only rabbit module I've tested against.  
>> Essentially it is a generalized RPC over AMQP handling mechanism  
>> that on the server side takes a concrete Erlang module as a  
>> parameter to a handler instance. So presenting a further module via  
>> this mechanism is trivial:
>> Client ---> Java Interface ---> Dynamic Proxy --> Wire --> Queue -- 
>> > RPC Handler --> Erlang module
>> The only thing you have to add is
>> 1. The business module whose exported functions you wish to invoke
>> 2. A Java interface definition of those functions.
>> Everything else is generic.
>>> If you want requirements to add to
>>> 0-11 then I'd say that the three most important components seem to  
>>> be
>>> the exchange, queue and binding and these should be fully  
>>> administrable
>>> in order to allow for scripting, GUI tools etc. to manipulate them
>>> fully.
>> It sounds like you might to start with a wish list of functions you  
>> would like to be able to invoke, rather than exposing the kitchen  
>> sink unnecessarily.
>> HTH,
>> Ben
>