Apache ActiveMQ ™ is the most popular and powerful open source messaging andIntegration Patterns server.
Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to useEnterprise Integration Patterns and manyadvanced features while fully supportingJMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under theApache2.0 License
Features
- Supports a variety of Cross Language Clients and Protocols from Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP
- OpenWire for high performance clients in Java, C, C++, C#
- Stomp support so that clients can be written easily in C, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, ActionScript/Flash, Smalltalk to talk to ActiveMQ as well as any otherpopular Message Broker
- full support for the Enterprise Integration Patterns both in the JMS client and the Message Broker
- Supports many advanced features such as Message Groups, Virtual Destinations, Wildcards and Composite Destinations
- Fully supports JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4 with support for transient, persistent, transactional and XA messaging
- Spring Support so that ActiveMQ can be easily embedded into Spring applications and configured using Spring's XML configuration mechanism
- Tested inside popular J2EE servers such as TomEE, Geronimo, JBoss, GlassFish and WebLogic
- Includes JCA 1.5 resource adaptors for inbound & outbound messaging so that ActiveMQ should auto-deploy in any J2EE 1.4 compliant server
- Supports pluggable transport protocols such as in-VM, TCP, SSL, NIO, UDP, multicast, JGroups and JXTA transports
- Supports very fast persistence using JDBC along with a high performance journal
- Designed for high performance clustering, client-server, peer based communication
- REST API to provide technology agnostic and language neutral web based API to messaging
- Ajax to support web streaming support to web browsers using pure DHTML, allowing web browsers to be part of the messaging fabric
- CXF and Axis Support so that ActiveMQ can be easily dropped into either of these web service stacks to provide reliable messaging
- Can be used as an in memory JMS provider, ideal for unit testing JMS
Pre-Installation Requirements
Operating Systems:
- Windows: Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows 7.
- Unix: Ubuntu Linux, Powerdog Linux, MacOS, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, or any Unix platform that supports Java.
Environment:
- Java Developer Kit (JDK) 1.4.x or greater for deployment and 1.5.x (Java 5) for compiling/building.As of AMQ 5.5.0 you need JDK 1.6.0 to build.
- The JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set to the directory where the JDK is installed, e.g.,c:\Program Files\jsdk.1.4.2-09.
- Maven 1.0.2 or greater (required when installing source or developer's releases).
- JARs that will be used must be added to the classpath.
Windows Binary Installation
This procedure explains how to download and install the binary distribution on a Windows system.
- From a browser, navigate to activemq.apache.org/.
- Click the Download link in the navigation pane (the left pane).
- Click the ActiveMQ 4.x Release link under the "Latest Releases" section. This brings up a new page.
- Under the Download Here section, select the desired distribution (you may have to scroll down to see the "Download Here" section).
For a binary distribution, the filename will be similar to: activemq-x.x.x.zip. - Extract the files from the ZIP file into a directory of your choice.
- Proceed to the Starting ActiveMQ section of this document.
- Following start-up, go to the Testing the Installation section of this document.
Dowload ActiveMQ apache-activemq-5.6.0-bin.zip
Extract apache-activemq-5.6.0-bin.zip into E:\apache-activemq-5.6.0
cd E:\apache-activemq-5.6.0-bin.zip
\bin\activemq
as follows:
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then monitor ActiveMQ using the web browser