On 05/21/2014 02:10 PM, Ken Giusti wrote:
I think of qpid::messaging as being a "traditional" client api.
[...]
Messenger, as an alternative, provides (or at least promises to
provide) solutions to a lot of the issues a "traditional" API has
left to the application implementation. Things like connection
failover, message retries,
Automatic failover and message retry *is* supported in qpid::messaging
(it isn't yet in Messenger).
credit scheduling,
What is that exactly? Messenger::recv(N) essentially distributes N
credits across however many incoming links there are, right? Whereas
qpid::messaging allows capacity to be set per subscriber and maintains
the window of credits accordingly.
So is the key difference here that in one API the credit is controlled
per-subscription whereas in the other it is controlled in aggregate.
Where the number of receivers is larger than the number of messages the
application is prepared to accept, dealing with the credit in aggregate
and having it automatically (re)distributed as needed may indeed be
useful. Of course the same feature could easily be built as a utility on
top of something like qpid::messaging.
routing,
So by this we mean the fact that Messenger looks at the address 'to'
field of the message, applies some optional rules to that, and then find
or creates the link to send it over.
This could of course also be built on top of qpid::messaging (or indeed
JMS).
and even client-side store are provided by Messenger.
When you say 'are provided' you mean 'might be provided in the future'?
Such features would probably feel cumbersome
I don't think it is the 'features' that are cumbersome, it's the
restrictions.
to someone looking for a JMS-like API (and IMHO may be better off
with qpid::messaging), but for those folks who may not be bound to a
legacy application, Messenger offers some useful features.
I've heard this sentiment in different ways quite a lot. I.e.
qpid::messaging and JMS are 'legacy' approaches, are for people who
aren't free to choose etc, whereas Messenger represents the future, the
ideal if nothing holds you back etc.
I don't go along with that view personally; I see nothing that really
justifies it. It also seems to me to be quite counter to the notion that
the APIs 'complement' each other, at least in my understanding of what
that means[1].
I'm certainly not arguing that qpid::messaging is the ideal API either,
or that there is only room for one API. I'm keen to see if we can
improve the general situation and feel that some debate around the
different visions that exist within the community would be helpful in
enabling better collaboration on that goal.
--Gordon.
[1] complement, verb, /ˈkɒm.plɪ.ment/:
"to make something else seem better or more attractive
when combining with it"
(from http://dictionary.cambridge.org)
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