ActiveMQ 5.1.0 tutorial
It is always good to know at least one message brokers. ActiveMQ is one of those top brokers used actively industry wide. So, here is a small tutorial or tips to use ActiveMQ along with java messaging service. Installations I am using the following configuration on my system: 1. Windows XP 2. JDK 5 update 15 3. ActiveMQ 5.1.0 Download activeMQ from http://activemq.apache.org/ . Unzip to any suitable location. And the installation is done!!! Directory Structure After you unzip, there are few basic files you need to know. a. The bin folder contains the batch file, activemq.bat, using which you can start the server. It also contains activemq-admin.bat, using which you can get more details about activemq, like a listing of queues etc. b. The conf folder contains the activemq.xml configuring the ActiveMQ broker. Here is where we can configure the transports, permanent queues etc. Creating Temporary Queues Firt run bin/activemq.bat. This should start ActiveMQ listening at port 61616. There i...