Boost application development with Amazon Web Services, Part 2: Introduction to the Amazon Simple Queue Service

Level: Intermediate

Eric Giguere , Software Developer

02 Sep 2005

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Build and distribute applications that take advantage of Amazon's computing infrastructure to reliably deliver messages between application components. This tutorial is the second in a series on creating applications with Amazon Web Services and, in this installment, you can learn how to implement a Web service by using the Amazon Simple Queue Service. (Series: Boost application development with Amazon Web Services, Part 2)

In this tutorial

• Overview of ASQS
  
  
  
  
• Work with ASQS
  
  
  
  
• The QueueExplorer application
  
  
  
  
• Run QueueExplorer
  
  
  
  
• Create and delete queues
  
  
  
  
• Read and write data
  
  
  
  
• Data locking
  
  
  
  
• Use JMS with ASQS
  

Prerequisites

As part of this tutorial, you need to register with Amazon.com to obtain an AWS subscription ID. Registration is free, and you can obtain the subscription ID using the subscription form on the Amazon.com Web site. You cannot use any of Amazon's Web services without a subscription ID.

System requirements

To run the code in this tutorial, you will need the Java software development kit (JDK), version 1.4.2 or later.

Duration

Under two hours

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