RabbitMQ Cookbook

Working with message routing using topic exchanges

Direct and topic exchanges are conceptually very similar to each other. The main difference is that direct exchanges use exact matching only to select the destination of the messages, while topic exchanges allow using pattern matching with specific wildcards.

For example, the BBC is using topic routing with RabbitMQ to route new stories to all of the appropriate RSS feeds on their websites.

You can find the example for a topic exchange at:

Chapter01/Recipe08/Java_8/src/rmqexample/topic

Getting ready

To use this recipe we need to set up the Java development environment as indicated in the Introduction section.

How to do it…

Let's start with the producer:

1. Declare a topic exchange:

   channel.exchangeDeclare(exchangeName, ...