On 06/21/2013 12:16 PM, Armando Migliaccio wrote: > In my view a cell should only know about the queue it's connected to, > and let the 'global' message queue to do its job of dispatching the > messages to the right recipient: that would solve the problem altogether. > > Were federated <http://www.rabbitmq.com/federation.html> queues and > topic routing > <http://blog.springsource.org/2011/04/01/routing-topologies-for-performance-and-scalability-with-rabbitmq/> > not considered fit for the purpose? I guess the drawback with this is > that it is tight to Rabbit. > FWIW, qpid does this, too. It wouldn't be a rabbit specific approach. I also agree that this seems like a more natural approach and is worth exploring if someone wants to dig into it some more. -- Russell Bryant