Let's build a message-driven communication using the AMQP protocol with these steps:
- Before doing anything else, download the Erlang/OTP and RabbitMQ server. Since all recipes here run on Windows, download the Windows Erlang/OTP installer from https://www.erlang.org/downloads. Likewise, visit https://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html and download the Windows installer for the RabbitMQ server.
- Install Erlang/OTP first, followed by the RabbitMQ server. After a successful installation, open a command-line Terminal, visit the rabbitmq_server-3.6.10\sbin folder, and run the rabbitmq-server start command to start up the server and the rabbitmq-server stop command to shut it down.
- Inside rabbitmq_server-3.6.10/sbin, run the rabbitmq-plugins ...