API Gateway with MQTT support (IOT) - spring-boot

Recently I am working with along with IOT department, right our project is on discussion and creating core architecture of an application. client specification is we must use MQTT protocol to communicate between device and java application (eclipse paho client).
its a web application based on spring boot and microservice architecture. but I an not able to find any good solution for API gateways that provide MQTT support.
I found zuul is good but do we have any alternative like kong..

MQTT is a TCP stream based protocol, so API Gateways that operate on the HTTP / Layer 7 are not going to fit the bill.
There are extensions to commercial API Gateways available, such as the Axway MQTT Proxy described here.
While not an API Gateway, Confluent also have a MQTT proxy that allows simple integration with Kafka, however if you have already written an application that implements the backend then Kafka is going to require some re-architecting.
The other options are really going for a simple TCP stream reverse proxy like nginx or HAProxy.
If I was asked to build something like this, I'd go straight to Kafka. It and MQTT are a very neat architectural fit and also operate very well together but it really depends on your requirements.

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How to upload Spring Boot application using RabbitMQ messaging to AWS EC2?

I have a functioning application using Spring Boot, Rabbit MQ & MySQL DB locally. I'm curious, how I can upload this app to the AWS Environment and get it working seamlessly.
The only part where I'm lost is how to get RabbitMQ in the cloud? Any suggestions?
I see three options for your needs :
Use AmazonMQ managed service. This uses ActiveMQ under the hood, and supports the AMQP protocol (so you can continue to use the RabbitMQ client). Here's an article on how to do it : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/migrating-from-rabbitmq-to-amazon-mq/.
Use a third-party managed service (such as CloudAMQP). This is similar to the first option, but you can choose a RabbitMQ provider if you wish.
Install RabbitMQ on an EC2 instance and manage it yourself. This is the most flexible option, but it will require more effort on your part and it will probably cost more. I would recommend this option only if you have special requirements that are not met by using a hosted service.
In all cases, I would also recommend to use a messaging library such as Spring Messaging or Apache Camel to isolate your code from your messaging implementation. This will reduce the boilerplate code you need for messaging and allows you to focus on your application logic.

How to update data in real-time

I have a small stock-market application with Spring boot and if any product updated I want to serve an updated product to the clients in realtime
does it make sense to use message queues like RabbitMQ and Sse(Server Sent Events) for this, or is there a more sensible solution?
Solution
Publish your updated data to some channel
Your clients should subscribe to that channel to get updated feed in real-time.
Tools
Use in-house setup for RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka or other open-source tools and implement WebSocket (For Front end applications)
Use commercial service like Google Cloud PubSub
Readymade and fully packaged solution with supported SDK for backend and frontend, https://www.pubnub.com/.
For this you can use either of
Spring Integration
Web Sockets
JMS
Spring Integration is an implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns and is ideal for asynchronous processing data at realtime.
However, looking at your scope, it is only about publisher-subscriber pattern. Hence can be solved with JMS.
With JMS the subscribers/consumers can register/de-register dynamically. Also it provides ways to have fall-backs and tracking.

Examples of using Azure Service Bus with AMQP 1.0 clients

A lot of materials about Service Bus mention that it uses AMQP 1.0. However, examples I have found use libraries that hide away AMQP layer, so it is not obvious how would one use generic AMQP 1.0 client and do things
that are listed in this Service Bus example
Being able to use independent AMQP client instead of supplied higher level clients might be important in several scenarios. For instance supplied clients might not be available at some platforms, or generic clients might provide more suitable way of working for particular problem.
Possibly related question
Little bit further from .net example I had linked in question I have found following example of how to access Service Bus with Proton AMQP 1.0 Python library. It shows how to send and receive messages.
What is lacking in that example, is how to create and manage queues and topics. It appears that this is not possible from AMQP interface, and needs to be done out of the band through either web azure console, or through REST interface.

Stomp + Spring + ZeroMQ for real-time

I need to implement a real-time scenario via web sockets and ZeroMQ queue.
SockJS with Stomp in the client side
Spring MVC / Integration with #EnableWebSocketMessageBroker
Remote messaging queue with ZeroMQ
At this moement, I could connect client and Spring via web sockets but I need to add the magic of remote queues.
ZeroMQ is available from 2 remote URLs (one for publishing and another one for subscribing).
My question is: How can I implement ZeroMQ in order to stay listening subscribed URL or the publishing URL?
Additionally, this type of functionality is conceptually similar to Spring Integration Outbound Gateways which stay listening for the response. Is it possible to implement ZeroMQ via Spring integration?
Thank you
We have an open JIRA issue to add ZeroMQ support to Spring Integration.
But nothing is implemented yet; contributions are welcome!.

How does RabbitMQ compare to Mule

How does RabbitMQ compare to Mule, I am going to build an application using message oriented architecture and AMQP (RabbitMQ) provides everything i want, but i am perplexed with so many related technology choice and similar concepts like ESB. I am having a doubt if i am making a choice without considering other alternatives.
I am mostly clear that RabbitMQ is a message broker and it helps me in mediating message between producer and consumer (all forms or publish subscribe and i could understand how its used from real examples like twitter , or Facebook updates, etc)
What is Mule, if i could achieve what i do in RabbitMQ using mule, should i consider mule similar to RabbitMQ?
Does mule has a different objective than that of a message broker?
Does mule assumes that underlying it there is a message broker that delivers message to the appropriate mule listeners (i could easily write a listener in RabbitMQ)
Is mule a complete Java bases system ( The current experiment i did with RabbitMQ took me less than 30 Min to write a simple RPC Client Server with client as C# and Server as Java , will such things be done in Mule easily).
Mule is an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). RabbitMQ is a message broker.
An ESB provides added layers atop of a message broker such as routing, transformations and business process management. It is a mediator between applications, integrating Web Services, REST endpoints, database connections, email and ftp servers - you name it. It is a high-level integration backbone which orchestrates interoperability within a network of applications that speak different protocols.
A message broker is a lower level component which enables you as a developer to relay raw messages between publishers and subscribers, typically between components of the same system but not always. It is used to enable asynchronous processing to keep response times low. Some tasks take longer to process and you don't want them to hold things up if they're not time-sensitive. Instead, post a message to a queue (as a publisher) and have a subscriber pick it up and process it "later".
Mule is a "higher level" service implemented with message broker. From the docs
The messaging backbone of the ESB is
usually implemented using JMS, but any
other message server implementation
could be used
You can build an ESB with rabbit; however, you're going to be limited to sending byte[] packages, and you'll have to build your system out of messaging primitives like topics and queues. It might be a bit faster (based on absolutely no benchmarking, testing or data) because there are fewer layers of translation. Mule provides an abstraction on top of this, speaks a variety of transports, and can handle some routing logic.
Mule is a Enterprise service bus providing end to end integration solution where as Rabbit is message broker for queueing messages between subscriber and receiver.
RabbitMQ, a open source message broker software is written in Erlang programming language and is built on Open Telecom Platform for clustering and failover. It is easy to use, supports a huge number of developer platforms and runs on all major operating systems. It works on a concept called Exchange.
Mule connects RabbitMQ with AMQP connector.

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