RabbitMQ XMPP gateway released
July 1st, 2008 tonyg
I’m pleased to announce that our XMPP gateway for exposing a RabbitMQ instance to the global XMPP network has been released (documentation, browse or check out code, download snapshot).
Update: Because it depends on a newer release of RabbitMQ than 1.3.0, you will also need to check out the server and codegen code from our public mercurial repositories, or download them as snapshots: server, codegen.
The mod_rabbitmq module implements an ejabberd extension module which gateways AMQP (as implemented by RabbitMQ) to XMPP.
By bridging between the two systems, we benefit from:
- XMPP’s internet-scale addressing and federation
- XMPP’s presence model
- AMQP’s store-and-forward capability
- AMQP’s routing and filtering (using exchanges and bindings)
The current implementation is a very simple mapping between the two systems. Its simplicity keeps the code short, but only exposes a subset of AMQP features to the XMPP network, and vice versa.
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1. tonyg | July 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
((I accidentally deleted a bunch of comments I didn’t mean to delete today, so I’m having to repost them manually:))
Pedro Melo wrote:
Hi,
great work!
Now that ejabberd supports (version 2.x and up) pluggable back.-end’s to their pubsub stuff, are there any plans to make mod_rabbitmq such a module?
this would allow us to use XEP-0060 (PubSub over XMPP) with RabbitMQ topics.
Thanks,
2. tonyg | July 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
((I accidentally deleted a bunch of comments I didn’t mean to delete today, so I’m having to repost them manually:))
Mickaël Rémond wrote:
Hello,
This sounds like a good idea.
If you want to, we would be happy to give you an access to ejabberd-modules svn for your ejabberd module gateway code.
We try to gather as much as possible of the modules developed for ejabberd in this space.
http://svn.process-one.net/ejabberd-modules/
Let me know
–
Mickaël Rémond
http://www.process-one.net/
3. tonyg | July 3rd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
@Pedro: That’s an interesting idea. I haven’t yet had a look to see how difficult it might be, but if pubsub and AMQP can be fit together reasonably smoothly, it would definitely be a good idea to do so.
@Mickael: Thanks very much. It’s still pretty experimental, and will probably evolve fairly rapidly. Once it settles down a little, we’d be happy to contribute it to the ejabberd community.
4. Bryan | August 7th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
The repository seems to be down.
5. tonyg | August 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Thanks for the heads-up, Bryan — we’re looking into the problem.
6. Paul Crowley | August 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Oops, I broke that while working on something else. Sorry! Fixed now. Bryan - thanks for letting us know.
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