The RabbitMQ provides for this purpose Delayed Exchange feature.
Starting with version 1.6 Spring AMQP also provides a high level API on the matter: http://docs.spring.io/spring-amqp/reference/html/_reference.html#delayed-message-exchange:
<rabbit:topic-exchange name="topic" delayed="true" />
MessageProperties properties = new MessageProperties();
properties.setDelay(15000);
template.send(exchange, routingKey,
MessageBuilder.withBody("foo".getBytes()).andProperties(properties).build());
UPDATE
Before Spring AMQP 1.6
you should do like this:
@Bean
CustomExchange delayExchange() {
Map<String, Object> args = new HashMap<String, Object>();
args.put("x-delayed-type", "direct");
return new CustomExchange("my-exchange", "x-delayed-message", true, false, args);
}
...
MessageProperties properties = new MessageProperties();
properties.setHeader("x-delay", 15000);
template.send(exchange, routingKey,
MessageBuilder.withBody("foo".getBytes()).andProperties(properties).build());
Also see this question and its answer: Scheduled/Delay messaging in Spring AMQP RabbitMq