diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0f182a0..e2e7a42 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@
 *.jar
 *.war
 *.ear
+
+
+*#*#
+*~
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diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c58d7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<project name="flume-rabbitmq" default="jar">
+  <property name="javac.debug" value="on"/>
+  <property name="flume.base" value="/usr/lib/flume"/>
+ 
+  <path id="classpath">
+    <!-- in case we are running in dev env -->
+    <pathelement location="${flume.base}/build/classes"/>
+    <fileset dir="${flume.base}/lib">
+      <include name="**/google-collect*.jar" />
+      <include name="**/guava*.jar" />
+      <include name="**/log4j-*.jar" />
+       <include name="**/slf4j-*.jar" />
+ 
+    </fileset>
+    <!-- in case we are running in release env -->
+    <fileset dir="${flume.base}/lib">
+      <include name="flume-*.jar" />
+      <include name="commons*.jar" />
+      <include name="junit.jar" />
+      <include name="rabbitmq*.jar" />
+    </fileset>
+    <pathelement location="${flume.base}/lib/"/>
+  </path>
+ 
+  <target name="jar">
+    <mkdir dir="build"/>
+    <mkdir dir="build/classes"/>
+ 
+    <javac srcdir="./src/com/blangdon/flume/rabbitmq" destdir="build/classes" debug="${javac.debug}">
+      <classpath refid="classpath"/>
+    </javac>
+ 
+    <jar jarfile="flume-rabbitmq.jar" basedir="build/classes"/>
+  </target>
+ 
+  <target name="clean">
+    <echo message="Cleaning generated files and stuff"/>
+    <delete dir="build" />
+    <delete file="flume-rabbitmq.jar" />
+  </target>
+ 
+</project>
diff --git a/src/com/blangdon/flume/rabbitmq/RabbitMQSink.java b/src/com/blangdon/flume/rabbitmq/RabbitMQSink.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0029218
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/com/blangdon/flume/rabbitmq/RabbitMQSink.java
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+package com.blangdon.flume.rabbitmq;
+
+import com.rabbitmq.client.Connection;
+import com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory;
+import com.rabbitmq.client.Channel;
+import com.rabbitmq.client.Address;
+import com.rabbitmq.client.MessageProperties;
+
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import com.cloudera.flume.conf.Context;
+import com.cloudera.flume.conf.SinkFactory.SinkBuilder;
+import com.cloudera.flume.core.Event;
+import com.cloudera.flume.core.EventSink;
+import com.cloudera.util.Pair;
+import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
+
+public class RabbitMQSink extends EventSink.Base{
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RabbitMQSink.class);
+
+
+    private String queue = null;
+    private String username = null;
+    private String password = null;
+    private Address[] servers = null;
+    private Connection connection = null;
+    private Channel channel = null;
+
+    public RabbitMQSink( String queue, String username, String password, String servers ){
+	this.queue = queue;
+	this.username = username;
+	this.password = password;
+	
+	String[] servList = servers.split(" ");
+	this.servers = new Address[servList.length];
+
+	for( int i = 0; i < servList.length; ++i ){
+	    Address next = Address.parseAddress(servList[i]);
+	    LOG.info("Address: " + next.toString() + " Added To List");
+	    this.servers[i] = next;
+	}
+    }
+
+
+    @Override
+	public void open() throws IOException{
+	//open connection to a server here
+
+	Collections.shuffle(Arrays.asList(this.servers));
+
+	ConnectionFactory cf = new ConnectionFactory();
+	if( this.username != null ){
+	    cf.setUsername(this.username);
+	}
+
+	if( this.password != null ){
+	    cf.setPassword(this.password);
+	}
+
+	cf.setVirtualHost("/");
+
+	try{
+	    this.connection = cf.newConnection(this.servers);
+	    this.channel = this.connection.createChannel();
+	    this.channel.queueDeclare(this.queue, true, false, false, null);
+	    
+	    String host = this.connection.getAddress().toString();
+	    
+	    LOG.info("Connected To Server: " + host);
+	}catch( Exception ex ){
+	    LOG.warn("Could Not Connect To RabbitMQ Server");
+	    throw ex;
+	}
+    }
+
+    @Override
+	public void append(Event e) throws IOException{
+	//publish event
+
+	if( this.channel != null ){
+	    byte[] message = e.getBody();
+	    this.channel.basicPublish("", this.queue, MessageProperties.TEXT_PLAIN, message);
+	}else{
+	    this.open();
+	}
+    }
+
+    @Override
+	public void close() throws IOException{
+	
+	if( this.channel != null ){
+	    this.channel.close();
+	}
+
+	if( this.connection != null ){
+	    this.connection.close();
+	}
+
+    }
+
+
+    public static SinkBuilder builder(){
+	return new SinkBuilder(){
+	    @Override
+		public EventSink build(Context context, String... argv){
+		Preconditions.checkArgument(argv.length > 1,
+					    "usage: rabbitMQSink(queueName, serverList, [username, password])");
+		
+		String queueName = argv[0];
+		String servers = argv[1];
+		
+		String username = null;
+		if( argv.length > 2 ){
+		    username = argv[2];
+		}
+		
+		String password = null;
+		if( argv.length > 3 ){
+		    password = argv[3];
+		}
+		
+		return new RabbitMQSink(queueName, username, password, servers);
+	    }
+	};
+   }
+
+
+    public static List<Pair<String, SinkBuilder>> getSinkBuilders(){
+	List<Pair<String, SinkBuilder>> builders = 
+	    new ArrayList<Pair<String, SinkBuilder>>();
+	builders.add( new Pair<String, SinkBuilder>("rabbitMQSink", builder()));
+	return builders;
+    }
+
+}
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