On Dec 20, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Stefan Arentz wrote: > Is there a JMS-like API available for Python? I would like to > quickly receive messages through the network and then process > those slowly in the backgound. In the Java world I would simply > create a (persistent) queue and tell the JSM provider to run > N messagehandlers parallel.
The closest thing to what you are looking for is the Spread Toolkit, which is located at http://www.spread.org. Spread has Python bindings available from the Python Package Index (http://python.org/ pypi). Spread allows you to multicast messages to a large number of clients without knowing anything about where those clients are, or how to connect to them. It provides guarnateed and reliable delivery of messages for connected clients. However, it does not provide what JMS calls "durable" subscriptions in that you must be connected to the network to be guaranteed to receive a message. I have implemented a prototype distributed event system on top of the spread toolkit that provides some durable subscription like functionality. I am hoping to Open Source the code at some point in the next few months, but in the meantime, you can achieve most of what you need with spread. -- Jonathan LaCour http://cleverdevil.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
