I’m looking for a RabbitMQ replacement in a PHP project. Two options I am considering so far are Kestrel and Qpid (if we decide to stick with AMQP (which I would like to avoid)). In RabbitMQ, you can send a message to an exchange (destination), which decides which queues or topics (in JMS terms) the message should be delivered to. What stops me from choosing a STOMP server (ActiveMQ/Apollo or HornetQ) is that I can’t find out whether it is possible in STOMP to SEND a message to a destination so that the message is delivered to a number of queues (in JMS terms)? The sender is not supposed to know which queues the message should be delivered to.
Thank you.
You can make use of something called Composite Destinations in ActiveMQ to do this with Stomp or the standard JMS client. Stomp destinations are prefixed with the /queue/ string and then the name of the destination. You also can use Virtual Destinations in ActiveMQ. And of course the Destination strings in ActiveMQ can support wildcards.