This is JavaBeanstalkClient, a Java Client for beanstalkd See http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd for general info To build JavaBeanstalkClient, type "mvn install" This client library is designed to operate with other client libraries; hence jobs are opaque byte arrays, job ids require the use of a Java long (to support unsigned ints up to 2**32), etc. The implementation of the library is based upon the design of the Python beanstalkc at http://github.com/earl/beanstalkc/tree/master Documentation on how to use Beanstalkd is available at http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/tree/v1.3/doc/protocol.txt?raw=true and http://github.com/earl/beanstalkc/tree/master