jms messaging in quercus - receiving messages

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Quercus offers a simplified messaging interface built upon JMS. This functionality makes it possible to send and receive messages using either the Resin JMS implementation or any other messaging service with a JMS implementation. Many features of JMS are designed for message-driven services which make sense in the Java world, but are not appropriate for PHP. This tutorial focuses receiving messages in a non-blocking way.

This example uses two queues: an "ad queue" and a "control queue". The PHP script removes advertisements from the ad queue using the poll() method. This method is non-blocking - if there are no advertisements, the method will return FALSE instead of waiting for a new advertisement. Whenever the PHP script removes an advertisement from the ad queue, it signals a Java message driven bean (MDB) to add another ad by sending an empty message to the control queue.

$ad_queue = java_bean("AdQueue");
$control_queue = java_bean("ControlQueue");

if (! $ad_queue) {
  echo "Unable to get ad queue!\n";
} elseif (! $control_queue) {
  echo "Unable to get control queue!\n";
} else {
  $ad = $ad_queue->poll();

  if ($ad == null) {
    echo "No ads available on the queue\n";
  } else {
    echo "$ad";
  }

  if (! $control_queue->offer(0)) {
    echo "Unable to send control message\n";
  }
}

The programming model of the Quercus JMS interface is first to get access to the queue using java_bean to get the named queue. To create a JMSQueue object, pass in the name of the JMS queue to be used. Since the JMS Queue implements the BlockingQueue API, the PHP script can use offer() and poll(). The example above shows how to use both methods.

JMS requires that two resources be set up: A ConnectionFactory and a Queue. Both are configured in WEB-INF/resin-web.xml. The ConnectionFactory is used to connect to all the Queues and only one of them needs to be set up.

<web-app xmlns="http://caucho.com/ns/resin">

  <jms-connection-factory uri="resin:"/>

</web-app>

This example uses two queues, AdQueue and ControlQueue.

<web-app xmlns="http://caucho.com/ns/resin">

  <jms-queue name="AdQueue" uri="memory:"/>

  <jms-queue name="ControlQueue" uri="memory:"/>

</web-app>

The complete configuration is in WEB-INF/resin-web.xml.

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