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= Standalone Streaming Applications
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To send or receive messages from a broker (such as RabbitMQ or Kafka) you can leverage `spring-cloud-stream` project and it's integration with Spring Cloud Function.
Please refer to https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-static/spring-cloud-stream/current/reference/html/spring-cloud-stream.html#spring_cloud_function[Spring Cloud Function] section of the https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-stream[Spring Cloud Stream] reference manual for more details and examples.

