Setting up Active MQ on Unix

Install activemq locally

Download gzip'd tar'd file from one of the mirror sites

eg. 

        wget http://mirror.vorboss.net/apache/activemq/5.9.1/apache-activemq-5.9.1-bin.tar.gz 

        tar zxvf apache-activemq-5.9.1-bin.tar.gz

        cd apache-activemq-5.9.1/bin

        chmod 755 activemq

Start activemq

        ./activemq start

Check it is running:

        netstat -an|grep 61616

You can go to the admin console in a web browser: 

        http://localhost:8161/admin/ 

Default username and password is admin/admin.

Create JMS project

I created a maven project from the command line:

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.ojha.play -DartifactId=activemq -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false

In the pom I added a dependency on active mq:

   <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
          <artifactId>activemq-all</artifactId>
          <version>5.9.0</version>
      </dependency>

Implement producer and consumer

Producer:

Consumer:

I ran the producer and checked the console in the web browser to see the message:

Then ran the consumer to dequeue the message.