This is the start of a project bridging zeromq (zeromq.org) and vert.x (vertx.io).

https://github.com/p14n/vert-zeromq

ZeroMQBridge bridge = new ZeroMQBridge("tcp://*:5558", vertx.eventBus());
bridge.start();

vertx.eventBus().registerHandler("testHandler", new Handler>() {
        @Override
        public void handle(Message message) {
                message.reply(message.body());
        }
});

This example compiles with :optimizations :advanced.

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Seems odd to me, so this is posted with the caveat that may be a better, more idiomatic way of achieving the same result, but to immediately fail an actor using the ask pattern when there has been some sort of remoting failure: