[Info-vax] Large mailboxes

[Jean-François Piéronne]

Le 30/11/2020 à 10:35, Jan-Erik Söderholm a écrit :
> Den 2020-11-30 kl. 07:37, skrev Jean-François Piéronne:
>>
>> Le 29/11/2020 à 20:18, Arne Vajhøj a écrit :
>> [snip]
>>
>>> RabbitMQ is a fine traditional message queue (Kafka is not
>>> a traditional message queue - it is often called a
>>> message stream processing service).
>>>
>>> RabbitMQ is probably the most popular non-Java
>>> open source message queue.
>>>
>>
>> Correct, and is language agnostic. Kafka is Java oriented.
>>
>> JF
>>
> 
> Now, without reading through a lot of docs, can one get
> a quick answer to an easy question? :-)
> 
> Is the VMS port of RabbitMQ both server and client?
> Or does the VMS port need an "external" RabbitMQ server?
> 
> I mean, if I'd like to look at a solution with RabbitMQ
> to raplace our current VMS/mailbox IPC setup, can that be
> done locally within our VMS Alpha systems?

There is a old port of the server, but my best advice is to deploy the
server part on Linux, this is what all sites I knew have done.
The last I have installed used a cluster of 3 RabbitMQ nodes and 2
ha-proxy front-end.

Client part, no problem, including on old VMS version.
https://foss.vmsgenerations.org/openvms/libraries/rabbitmq-c
https://foss.vmsgenerations.org/openvms/wasd/rmqplus
Python module:
https://foss.vmsgenerations.org/openvms/python/modules/pika

JFP

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