Play Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

Integrating a Play application with message queues

In this recipe, we will explore how to use Play 2.0 to integrate with IronMQ, a popular cloud message queue service. We will use IronMQ's Java libraries, which can be found here:

https://github.com/iron-io/iron_mq_java

We will use a Play plugin to initialize our IronMQ client and queue objects, and will expose helper methods to send and retrieve messages. We will then use this plugin in a Play controller that will allow clients to post messages and retrieve messages using the HTTP method, GET.

How to do it…

For Java, we need to perform the following steps:

1. Run the foo_java application with Hot-Reloading enabled:

       activator "~run"
   

2. Create an IronMQ account on http://www.iron.io/ and create an IronMQ ...