Spring AMQP provides the familiar benefits of the Spring programming model to AMQP and, specifically, Rabbit MQ.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the 1.1.0 release of spring-amqp for Java, which supports the RabbitMQ 2.8.x client, providing the following features...

• Mirrored Queues
• Broker Failover
• Publisher Confirms
• Returns
• Federated Exchanges
• ...and more

For more information, refer to the project home page.

The Spring Integration 2.2.0 Milestone 1 release supports the features of this spring-amqp release.

The UDP and TCP channel adapters introduced in Spring Integration 2.0 Milestone 3 provide lightweight communication either between two or more Spring Integration applications, or between a Spring Integration application and some other platform.

Following on from Oleg's blog about the Loan Broker, I use the same example to show how to use the new UDP adapters available with M3. Assume that the CEO of the Loan Broker company has heard complaints from some customers that several banks are quoting outrageous rates. He asks the CIO if he can monitor the quotes coming back from the banks for a…