diff --git a/spring-amqp/pom.xml b/spring-amqp/pom.xml
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+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+	<groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+	<artifactId>springamqp</artifactId>
+	<version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+	<name>springamqp</name>
+	<description>Introduction to Spring-AMQP</description>
+
+	<properties>
+		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+		<maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.6.0</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
+	</properties>
+
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+		    <groupId>org.springframework.amqp</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-rabbit</artifactId>
+			<version>1.6.6.RELEASE</version>
+		</dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+
+	<build>
+		<finalName>springamqp</finalName>
+		<plugins>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
+				<configuration>
+					<source>1.8</source>
+					<target>1.8</target>
+					<verbose>true</verbose>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
+		</plugins>
+	</build>
+</project>
diff --git a/spring-amqp/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springamqp/consumer/Consumer.java b/spring-amqp/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springamqp/consumer/Consumer.java
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+package com.baeldung.springamqp.consumer;
+
+public class Consumer {
+    public void listen(String foo) {
+        System.out.println(foo);
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/spring-amqp/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springamqp/producer/Producer.java b/spring-amqp/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springamqp/producer/Producer.java
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+package com.baeldung.springamqp.producer;
+
+import org.springframework.amqp.core.AmqpTemplate;
+import org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.core.RabbitTemplate;
+import org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
+
+public class Producer {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
+        AbstractApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("beans.xml");
+        AmqpTemplate template = ctx.getBean(RabbitTemplate.class);
+        template.convertAndSend("Hello, world!");
+        Thread.sleep(1000);
+        ctx.destroy();
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/spring-amqp/src/main/resources/beans.xml b/spring-amqp/src/main/resources/beans.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:rabbit="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit"
+	xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
+    http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
+    http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit/spring-rabbit-1.4.xsd">
+
+	<rabbit:connection-factory id="connectionFactory" host="localhost" username="guest" password="guest" />
+
+	<rabbit:template id="amqpTemplate" connection-factory="connectionFactory"
+		exchange="myExchange" routing-key="foo.bar" />
+
+	<rabbit:admin connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
+
+	<rabbit:queue name="myQueue" />
+
+	<rabbit:topic-exchange name="myExchange">
+		<rabbit:bindings>
+			<rabbit:binding queue="myQueue" pattern="foo.*" />
+		</rabbit:bindings>
+	</rabbit:topic-exchange>
+
+
+	<rabbit:listener-container
+		connection-factory="connectionFactory">
+		<rabbit:listener ref="consumer" method="listen"
+			queue-names="myQueue" />
+	</rabbit:listener-container>
+
+	<bean id="consumer" class="com.baeldung.springamqp.consumer.Consumer" />
+
+</beans>
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