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+package com.baeldung.sqs;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentials;
+import com.amazonaws.auth.AWSStaticCredentialsProvider;
+import com.amazonaws.auth.BasicAWSCredentials;
+import com.amazonaws.regions.Regions;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQSClientBuilder;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.CreateQueueRequest;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.DeleteMessageRequest;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.GetQueueAttributesRequest;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.GetQueueAttributesResult;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.MessageAttributeValue;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.ReceiveMessageRequest;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.SendMessageBatchRequest;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.SendMessageRequest;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.SetQueueAttributesRequest;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.SendMessageBatchRequestEntry;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.Message;
+import com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQS;
+
+public class SQSApplication {
+
+    private static final AWSCredentials credentials;
+
+    static {
+        // put your accesskey and secretkey here
+        credentials = new BasicAWSCredentials(
+            "<AWS accesskey>", 
+            "<AWS secretkey>"
+        );
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+        // Set up the client
+        AmazonSQS sqs = AmazonSQSClientBuilder.standard()
+            .withCredentials(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(credentials))
+            .withRegion(Regions.US_EAST_1)
+            .build();
+
+        // Create a standard queue
+
+        CreateQueueRequest createStandardQueueRequest = new CreateQueueRequest("baeldung-queue");
+        String standardQueueUrl = sqs.createQueue(createStandardQueueRequest)
+            .getQueueUrl();
+
+        System.out.println(standardQueueUrl);
+
+        // Create a fifo queue
+
+        Map<String, String> queueAttributes = new HashMap<String, String>();
+        queueAttributes.put("FifoQueue", "true");
+        queueAttributes.put("ContentBasedDeduplication", "true");
+
+        CreateQueueRequest createFifoQueueRequest = new CreateQueueRequest("baeldung-queue.fifo").withAttributes(queueAttributes);
+        String fifoQueueUrl = sqs.createQueue(createFifoQueueRequest)
+            .getQueueUrl();
+
+        System.out.println(fifoQueueUrl);
+
+        // Set up a dead letter queue
+
+        String deadLetterQueueUrl = sqs.createQueue("baeldung-dead-letter-queue")
+            .getQueueUrl();
+
+        GetQueueAttributesResult deadLetterQueueAttributes = sqs.getQueueAttributes(new GetQueueAttributesRequest(deadLetterQueueUrl).withAttributeNames("QueueArn"));
+
+        String deadLetterQueueARN = deadLetterQueueAttributes.getAttributes()
+            .get("QueueArn");
+
+        SetQueueAttributesRequest queueAttributesRequest = new SetQueueAttributesRequest().withQueueUrl(standardQueueUrl)
+            .addAttributesEntry("RedrivePolicy", "{\"maxReceiveCount\":\"2\", " + "\"deadLetterTargetArn\":\"" + deadLetterQueueARN + "\"}");
+
+        sqs.setQueueAttributes(queueAttributesRequest);
+
+        // Send a message to a standard queue
+
+        Map<String, MessageAttributeValue> messageAttributes = new HashMap<>();
+
+        messageAttributes.put("AttributeOne", new MessageAttributeValue().withStringValue("This is an attribute")
+            .withDataType("String"));
+
+        SendMessageRequest sendMessageStandardQueue = new SendMessageRequest().withQueueUrl(standardQueueUrl)
+            .withMessageBody("A simple message.")
+            .withDelaySeconds(30) // Message will arrive in the queue after 30 seconds. We can use this only in standard queues
+            .withMessageAttributes(messageAttributes);
+
+        sqs.sendMessage(sendMessageStandardQueue);
+
+        // Send a message to a fifo queue
+
+        SendMessageRequest sendMessageFifoQueue = new SendMessageRequest().withQueueUrl(fifoQueueUrl)
+            .withMessageBody("FIFO Queue")
+            .withMessageGroupId("baeldung-group-1")
+            .withMessageAttributes(messageAttributes);
+
+        sqs.sendMessage(sendMessageFifoQueue);
+
+        // Send multiple messages
+
+        List<SendMessageBatchRequestEntry> messageEntries = new ArrayList<>();
+        messageEntries.add(new SendMessageBatchRequestEntry().withId("id-1")
+            .withMessageBody("batch-1")
+            .withMessageGroupId("baeldung-group-1"));
+        messageEntries.add(new SendMessageBatchRequestEntry().withId("id-2")
+            .withMessageBody("batch-2")
+            .withMessageGroupId("baeldung-group-1"));
+
+        SendMessageBatchRequest sendMessageBatchRequest = new SendMessageBatchRequest(fifoQueueUrl, messageEntries);
+        sqs.sendMessageBatch(sendMessageBatchRequest);
+
+        // Read a message from a queue
+
+        ReceiveMessageRequest receiveMessageRequest = new ReceiveMessageRequest(fifoQueueUrl).withWaitTimeSeconds(10) // Long polling;
+            .withMaxNumberOfMessages(1); // Max is 10
+
+        List<Message> sqsMessages = sqs.receiveMessage(receiveMessageRequest)
+            .getMessages();
+
+        sqsMessages.get(0)
+            .getAttributes();
+        sqsMessages.get(0)
+            .getBody();
+
+        // Delete a message from a queue
+
+        sqs.deleteMessage(new DeleteMessageRequest().withQueueUrl(fifoQueueUrl)
+            .withReceiptHandle(sqsMessages.get(0)
+                .getReceiptHandle()));
+
+        // Monitoring
+        GetQueueAttributesRequest getQueueAttributesRequest = new GetQueueAttributesRequest(standardQueueUrl).withAttributeNames("All");
+        GetQueueAttributesResult getQueueAttributesResult = sqs.getQueueAttributes(getQueueAttributesRequest);
+        System.out.println(String.format("The number of messages on the queue: %s", getQueueAttributesResult.getAttributes()
+            .get("ApproximateNumberOfMessages")));
+        System.out.println(String.format("The number of messages in flight: %s", getQueueAttributesResult.getAttributes()
+            .get("ApproximateNumberOfMessagesNotVisible")));
+
+    }
+
+}