Installation Instructions

Please note that this software is still in Alpha form and that I take no responsibility whatsoever on it's performance or lack of it!

A message queueing system will generally consist of a few server computers, each running Zope. On each of these server a Z Message Queue node will be installed. Each Z Message Queue node needs to know where the other nodes are in order to be able to communicate with them.

These instructions explain how to install a node on a Zope, and then "register" the other nodes with it.

1. Download the latest release and unpack it to you products folder.
2. Restart your Zope to make the product available.
3. Add a ZQueueNode object in the ZMI to any folder.
4. Click on the object's View tab in the ZMI to get to the management screen.
5. To add a remote node reference, fill in a Node Id (not the remote node's Zope id!) and a node address in the Add a node section. This is a reference to another node in your messaging system. Node address is a full URL to the other node, eg. http://www.foo.com/MyNodesZopeId. Click Add Node to register the other node. You should now have an entry something like: MyNodeId : http://www.foo.com/MyNodesZopeId
6. Repeat step 5 until all the other nodes in your system have been added. Do this for all the other nodes too.

Note that you can have more than one node on one Zope. Although this is a bit silly to have more than one node on one Zope, it is handy for testing.

Read more in the usage section on how to use the system from your application.