Queueing in Python (ala JMS)

[Jonathan LaCour]

On Dec 20, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Stefan Arentz wrote:
> Is there a JMS-like API available for Python? I would like to
> quickly receive messages through the network and then process
> those slowly in the backgound. In the Java world I would simply
> create a (persistent) queue and tell the JSM provider to run
> N messagehandlers parallel.

The closest thing to what you are looking for is the Spread Toolkit,  
which is located at http://www.spread.org.  Spread has Python  
bindings available from the Python Package Index (http://python.org/ 
pypi).

Spread allows you to multicast messages to a large number of clients  
without knowing anything about where those clients are, or how to  
connect to them.  It provides guarnateed and reliable delivery of  
messages for connected clients.  However, it does not provide what  
JMS calls "durable" subscriptions in that you must be connected to  
the network to be guaranteed to receive a message.

I have implemented a prototype distributed event system on top of the  
spread toolkit that provides some durable subscription like  
functionality.  I am hoping to Open Source the code at some point in  
the next few months, but in the meantime, you can achieve most of  
what you need with spread.

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Jonathan LaCour
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