Definitive fool-proof steps for 0MQ / ZeroMQ and Java on Windows 7?

Question

I've been trying to use 0MQ in my Windows dev environment with Java but I'm having a very difficult experience. It appears there are many issues with PATHs being inconsistent and the Visual Studio command prompt uses a different version of Java than the command prompt where I run my application. The inconsistencies don't stop there, and I feel like I'm not approaching this correctly.

So instead of trying to patch this process, has anyone successfully used ZeroMQ on Windows 7 64-bit and what steps and software stack did you use so that you can run a Java application locally?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I've used zmq with F# on Win7/64bit; it's very easy to make it work there.

As for the Java side of things, I found this documentation: http://www.zeromq.org/bindings:java and https://github.com/zeromq/jzmq which is the official binding.