[rabbitmq-discuss] How to tell Java Client running in a separate thread to stop consuming

Tue Oct 25 16:22:04 BST 2011

On 20/10/11 18:58, Adam Rabung wrote:
> Along these same lines, is it considered thread-safe to call
> channel.basicAck from a separate thread while the "host thread" for the
> channel is blocked on QueueingConsumer#nextDeliver?

As far as the client is concerned, there isn't a "host thread" for a 
channel, but Channel is in general not thread-safe. This will be 
addressed in the next release however.

>  Better yet, when is
> it not thread-safe to call basicAck from a separate thread?

Umm, all the time right now.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware