AMQP Support in Hyrax

Support for AMQP in hyrax is best handled by adding a new front-end to the server that can act as an AMQP client, reading information from an AMQP queue. Hyrax has an overall architecture that already supports this. Figure one shows a high-level view of the Hyrax architecture. The BES is the part f Hyrax that builds the bodies of a DAP response. The front-end (the OLFS) contains a set of handlers which respond to requests made using HTTP. Based on the request, the OLFS sends commands over a stateful connection to the BES asking it to make the correct response. Generally, the OLFS will have to parse the request URL and pass information from that URL to the BES. Even though the OLFS is designed to support several different 'protocols' like DAP or THREDDS, it is capable of responding to HTTP only (it is a Java Servlet; see Server Dispatch Operations for information about the OLFS design, implementation and extension capabilities). Thus, it makes the most sense to build a new front-end dedicated to AMQP