code and cofing

// main rabbitproblem/SimpleClient.java
package rabbitproblem;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.GenericXmlApplicationContext;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

/**
 * @author alex <a.shneyderman@gmail.com>
 * @since 10/12/12
 */
public class SimpleClient {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        ApplicationContext context = new GenericXmlApplicationContext("classpath:/simple-test.xml");
        System.out.println("Press enter to finish experiment.");
        new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)).readLine();
    }

}

// listener code rabbitproblem/SimpleMsgListener.java
package rabbitproblem;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.springframework.amqp.core.Message;

/**
 * TODO: description
 *
 * @author alex <a.shneyderman@gmail.com>
 * @since 10/12/12
 */
public class SimpleMsgListener implements org.springframework.amqp.core.MessageListener {

    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(SimpleMsgListener.class);

    @Override
    public void onMessage(Message message) {
        log.info("Message received: " + new String(message.getBody()));
    }

}

// config
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:rabbit="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit"
       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit
                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit/spring-rabbit-1.0.xsd
                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">

    <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="systemPropertiesModeName" value="SYSTEM_PROPERTIES_MODE_OVERRIDE"/>
        <property name="locations" value="classpath*:simple-test.properties"/>
    </bean>

    <!-- connectivity to rabbit -->
    <bean id="rabbitConnectionFactory"
          class="org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.CachingConnectionFactory">
        <property name="host" value="${rabbitmq.connectionfactory.hostname}" />
        <property name="username" value="${rabbitmq.connectionfactory.username}" />
        <property name="password" value="${rabbitmq.connectionfactory.password}" />
        <property name="virtualHost" value="${rabbitmq.connectionfactory.virtualHost}" />
    </bean>

    <!-- queue -->
    <rabbit:queue name="alex.tests.client.queue" auto-delete="false" exclusive="false" durable="false">
        <rabbit:queue-arguments key-type="java.lang.String" value-type="java.lang.String">
            <entry key="x-dead-letter-exchange" value="Error Messages" />
            <entry key="x-dead-letter-routing-key" value="ws.error" />
        </rabbit:queue-arguments>
    </rabbit:queue>

    <!-- queue creation -->
    <rabbit:admin connection-factory="rabbitConnectionFactory" />

    <!-- retry handler -->
    <bean id="retryOperationsInterceptor" class="org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.config.StatefulRetryOperationsInterceptorFactoryBean">
        <property name="retryOperations">
            <bean class="org.springframework.retry.support.RetryTemplate">
                <property name="retryPolicy">
                    <bean class="org.springframework.retry.policy.SimpleRetryPolicy">
                        <property name="maxAttempts" value="2" />
                    </bean>
                </property>
                <property name="backOffPolicy">
                    <bean class="org.springframework.retry.backoff.FixedBackOffPolicy">
                        <property name="backOffPeriod" value="1000" />
                    </bean>
                </property>
            </bean>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <util:list id="retryChain">
        <bean class="org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.retry.MissingMessageIdAdvice">
            <constructor-arg>
                <bean class="org.springframework.retry.policy.MapRetryContextCache" />
            </constructor-arg>
        </bean>
        <ref bean="retryOperationsInterceptor" />
    </util:list>

    <!-- container listener -->
    <bean id="listener.container" class="org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer">
        <property name="channelTransacted" value="false" />
        <property name="concurrentConsumers" value="2" />
        <property name="prefetchCount" value="1" />
        <property name="connectionFactory" ref="rabbitConnectionFactory" />
        <property name="acknowledgeMode" value="AUTO" />
        <property name="queues" value="alex.tests.client.queue" />
        <property name="autoStartup" value="true" />
        <property name="messageListener">
            <bean class="rabbitproblem.SimpleMsgListener" />
        </property>
        <property name="adviceChain" ref="retryChain" />
    </bean>

</beans>

// simple-test.properties properties file
rabbitmq.connectionfactory.username=***
rabbitmq.connectionfactory.password=***
rabbitmq.connectionfactory.hostname=****
rabbitmq.connectionfactory.virtualHost=/alex

// log4j.properties
log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, stdout

log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%c] [%t] - %m%n

log4j.logger.org.springframework=DEBUG
log4j.logger.rabbitproblem=DEBUG