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• Why are there no methods to create entities? Although one can use AMQP commands to accomplish this task it means you have to switch between two distinct command sets to manage the broker; it also means you cannot simply piggyback the QMF management over other transports. (further, for AMQP 1-0 we are removing "management" commands from the core protocol)

GS: See QPID-2317; I'd like using this to be as simple as sending a correctly formatted/encoded message to a special address. I believe with QMFv2 that will indeed be the pattern. It is a useful addition as the new APIs in c++ and python aim to be be protocol independent and thus do not expose the 0-10 declare methods.

• There are no tools for inspecting the contents of messages within the broker. Where a message is stuck on the queue, it is useful to be able to inspect its properties and/or content.

GS: You could do this by browsing the queue (though there is no support then for moving or modifying a message). A scheme that avoids duplicating too much of the standard messaging behaviour would be good.

• Values with High/Low watermarks... the historic low for these will almost invariably be 0, so what is the point?

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