[rabbitmq-discuss] Broker to Broker communication...

Mon Aug 9 22:34:22 BST 2010

Jeff,

Jeff Bannister wrote:
> The application that produces the messages would send them asynchronously to
> a local broker i.e. an Exchange. It is my understanding that an Exchange
> will not store any messages, therefore I am guessing I need a Q on the
> sending side to buffer these messages.

Correct. In fact the only way to get messages out of an AMQP broker is 
via a queue; clients cannot consume from exchanges directly.

> Who would read the Q, the consumer on the other side of the WAN?

Yep.

> So I would end up have something like...
> 
> App A-->Exchange-->Q-->+WAN+>Consumer-->AppB

Correct.

Regards,

Matthias.