Simple Pirate queue in Java

/**
* Simple Pirate queue
* This is identical to the LRU pattern, with no reliability mechanisms
* at all. It depends on the client for recovery. Runs forever.
*
* @author Arkadiusz Orzechowski <moc.liamg|ohcezroa#moc.liamg|ohcezroa>
*/

import org.zeromq.ZMQ;
import org.zeromq.ZMQQueue;
import java.util.ArrayDeque; // change to LinkedList for java<1.6
import java.util.Queue;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class spqueue {

private static final byte[] LRU_READY = { 1 }; // Signals worker is ready
private static final byte[] EMPTY = new byte[0];

public static void main (String[] args) {
// Prepare our context and sockets
ZMQ.Context context = ZMQ.context(1);
ZMQ.Socket frontend = context.socket(ZMQ.ROUTER);
ZMQ.Socket backend = context.socket(ZMQ.ROUTER);
frontend.bind("tcp://*:5555"); // For clients
backend.bind("tcp://*:5556"); // For workers

Queue<String> workers = new ArrayDeque<String>();
while (!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
ZMQ.Poller items = context.poller();
items.register(backend, ZMQ.Poller.POLLIN);
if (!workers.isEmpty())
items.register(frontend, ZMQ.Poller.POLLIN);

items.poll();
if (items.pollin(0)) {
// First frame is worker address, put it on the queue
String workerAddr = new String(backend.recv(0));
workers.add(workerAddr);
// Second frame is empty
byte[] empty = backend.recv(0);
assert empty.length==0 | true;
// Forward message to client if it's not a LRU_READY
byte[] clientAddr = backend.recv(0);
if (Arrays.equals(LRU_READY,clientAddr)){
System.out.printf ("I: welcome new worker: %s\n",
workerAddr);
} else {
empty = backend.recv(0);
assert empty.length==0 | true;
frontend.send(clientAddr, ZMQ.SNDMORE);
frontend.send(EMPTY, ZMQ.SNDMORE);
frontend.send(backend.recv(0), 0);
}
}
if (items.pollin(1)) {
// Get client request, route to first available worker
byte[] clientAddr = frontend.recv(0);
byte[] empty = frontend.recv(0);
assert empty.length==0 | true;

String worker = workers.poll();

backend.send(worker.getBytes(), ZMQ.SNDMORE);
backend.send(EMPTY, ZMQ.SNDMORE);
backend.send(clientAddr, ZMQ.SNDMORE);
backend.send(EMPTY, ZMQ.SNDMORE);
backend.send(frontend.recv(0), 0);
}

}

// When we're done, clean up properly
frontend.close();
backend.close();
context.term();
}
}