messaging over slow link

rjst Dec 7, 2003 7:19 AM

Hi,

I'm doing a significant amount of messaging over slow links , and I was wondering if it is possible to compress the messages sent.

thanks

1. Re: messaging over slow link

stephanenicoll Dec 7, 2003 7:32 AM (in response to rjst)

compress the message content yourself.

Regards,

Stephane
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2. Re: messaging over slow link

rjst Dec 7, 2003 7:43 AM (in response to rjst)

I considered that option, but in my case the payload is very small, almost all of the message size is the overhead, so it wouldn't help.

does jboss have a jms provider that compresses ?
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3. Re: messaging over slow link

genman Dec 7, 2003 7:52 PM (in response to rjst)

Are you saying that the messages are small but you are sending many of them? You could probably create some sort of compressed TCP/IP tunnel for tranmission and direct JMS traffic through it. I don't know how much % less bandwidth this would be.

If JMS is still too much overhead, I suggest using a simple socket link. Have the server read from a simple socket, generate the JMS message itself and enqueue on itself. For sever -> client, you can create a MDB which reads from JMS and sends back data over this same link.
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