Chapter 13. Distributed messaging and Java enterprise integration

 

This chapter covers

  • Using Lift’s AMQP support
  • Building distributed systems using Akka
  • Using Lift’s integration with the Java Persistence API

 

The first part of this chapter is all about distributed and concurrent programming. You’ll see how you can utilize Lift’s baked-in AMQP module to build reliable message-based workflows atop a friendly actor-based abstraction. In addition, we’ll look at Akka, the concurrency toolkit and scalability runtime.

This first section of the chapter will serve as an introduction to messaging. Messaging is a much broader topic than we can cover in this book, but you’ll learn how to leverage Lift’s support for AMQP and how to take advantage of ...

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