Monthly Solace Developer Community Highlights | May 2023

Below are some of the highlights from the Solace Developer Community in May: 

Partitioned Queues

PubSub+ Event Broker version 10.4.0 — which includes support for partitioned queues among other things — is now generally available. Partitioned Queues are included in the PubSub+ Event Broker: Software at no extra charge and are supported by our most recent releases of Solace JCSMP, JMS, CCSMP, Python, Golang, .NET, and JS APIs as well as standard REST/HTTP, MQTT 5.0, and AMQP. Read this community post for more information. 

Connector for IBM MQ v1.1 is Now Available 

This release contains a number of new features and enhancements since the 1.0 release in December 2022, including the support for durable topic subscriptions in the JMS/MQ input binding/consumer of a workflow and the support for up to 20 workflows to be configured per connector instance. This community post provides more information on the new features and enhancements in this release as well as where to download it. 

New Blog Posts by Community Writers 

This month we published the following blog posts by our community writers: 

• How to Use Pact to Contract Test your Event-Driven System
• Integrating MuleSoft with Solace PubSub+ Cloud
• How to Build a Slack Plugin to Interact with Solace Messaging

If you are also interested in writing about your project, a use case, or something you are working on or have built using Solace technology and third-party integrations, submit your suggested topics via the Solace Scholars Program.  

You Asked, We Answered! 

In this section, I’ll review a few questions our community members asked this month that you may be interested in reading about. 

• Community member solacenewbie80 wonders how to get back the message ID after publishing a message on Solace topic using Node.js. arih and Aaron jumped in to answer the question. 
• Community member dreamoka asked about connecting ActiveMQ Artemis to Solace PubSub+ Event Broker. Marc replied by introducing the release plan of the JMS connector currently under development and provided a temporary solution.
• Community member dreamoka was looking for a way to rewrite the URLs before sending the request to the Rest Consumer using Solace RDP. Tamimi and Aaron introduced the related PubSub+ feature for dynamically changing the URL as well as the resources to learn about it. Read their comments in the post. 
• Community member Yogi asked how to add topic subscription to durable topic endpoint in PubSub+ via CLI/SolAdmin/WebGUI. Aaron answered the question and provided the option.  

Solly Superstars Developer Champion Program 

In mid-November, we announced the launch of Solly Superstars Developer Champion Program. With the program, we want to recognize and reward our community and build a deeper connection with it. Read the blog post to see how potential Solly Superstars are evaluated, the benefits of becoming a Superstar, and how to apply!   

Why should you join the Solace Developer Community? 

I strongly encourage you to sign up for the Solace Developer Community if you have not already done so. This way you can not only keep abreast of the latest developments in the community, but also engage with other members by sharing problems or offering solutions. 

Hong Qiu

Hong is the Senior Community Manager at Solace, where he is responsible for building and managing the Solace community and creating developer-focused content. Prior to Solace, he spent over 10 years at Adobe managing the Adobe Developer Connection portals and planning, creating, and sourcing content for them. Before Adobe, he was a senior technical writer at Nortel and a technical writer at Cognos (now IBM).

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