In general, you're much better off posting questions regarding rabbitmq on the rabbitmq-discuss mailing list. We don't tend to track questions being asked outside of this.
Regarding the isOpen method, that is wel described in the docs: http://www.rabbitmq.com/api-guide.html#shutdown-atomicity.
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