that's precisely what i was looking for. thanks! now the naming convention seems a little bit odd. if i have arbitrary/fixed/predefined names for topic and queues (say foo and bar), can i link them up?
rajdavies wrote: > > are you looking for this: http://www.activemq.org/site/virtual- > destinations.html > > On 30 Jan 2007, at 02:31, igah wrote: > >> >> hi there, >> >> it's easy to load balance a queue's consumers -- by starting multiple >> consumer threads (in the same or different processes). but how to >> do this >> for a subscriber. >> >> let me explain what I mean with a use case like this: a message is >> published >> to a topic, where there are two subscribers, each of which does >> something >> different. let's say one subscriber's message processing rate is >> slower than >> the message arrival rate. it's natural to start multiple of them to >> distribute the load. but you cannot start another identical >> instance of the >> subscriber because that would cause the same message to be >> processed twice. >> >> i can think of one solution where i create another queue and >> forward all the >> messages from the topic to the queue. then we can start as many >> consumers on >> that queue as we want to. this requires management of this >> "forwarder". (you >> need to make sure it's always up, etc.) >> >> is there a better or more "out-of-box" approach? >> >> thanks in advance. >> -- >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/load-balance- >> topic-consumer-tf3139637.html#a8702320 >> Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/load-balance-topic-consumer-tf3139637.html#a8703850 Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
