Spring 5.0 By Example

Consuming messages with Spring Messaging

Spring AMQP provides the @RabbitListener annotation; it will configure the subscriber for the desired queue, it removes a lot of infrastructure code, such as connect to RabbitListenerConnectionFactory, and creates a consumer programmatically. It makes the creation of queue consumers really easy.

The spring-boot-starter-amqp provides some automatic configurations for us. When we use this module, Spring will automatically create a RabbitListenerConnectionFactory for us and configure the Spring converters to convert JSON to domain classes automatically.

Pretty simple. Spring AMQP really provides a super high-level abstraction for developers.

Let's see an example which will be used in our application soon: ...