This chapter talks about the Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol (AMQP), which is an agnostic message protocol. You’ll learn how to use the Spring AMQP module, which will talk to a RabbitMQ broker. RabbitMQ is one of the most commonly used brokers around the globe and this is because it’s easy to install and use. The best part is that it’s open source.
AMQP comes from the financial sector and was created in 2003 by JPMorgan Chase. More companies then worked around it to enhance this new way to do messaging. Rabbit Technologies implemented AMQP with the Erlang programming language, and ...