Yes, definitely UDP transport would be a major added value.
For many industrial & control systems, UDP is the solution when we talk
about:
- high frequency (>50Hz) messaging
- scalability: minimal load & use of resources on publisher's side
- some messages may be lost but usually the last one only
We implemented tracing at CERN using STOMP (over UDP) and Apache Camel (as a
converter and broker).
Here is the corresponding paper depicting the architecture:
http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/icalepcs2011/papers/wemau001.pdf
One day it would be nice to have support for UDP in 0MQ, for no