Apache ActiveMQ ™ -- Setting up ActiveMQ with Tomcat 5.5.9

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Create the file /META-INF/context.xml. Here is an example:

This will setup the JNDI for the ConectionFactory and Topic to work within Tomcat.

Here is some example code that will publish a test message to the MY.TEST.FOO Topic:

try { InitialContext initCtx = new InitialContext(); Context envContext = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env"); ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = (ConnectionFactory) envContext.lookup("jms/ConnectionFactory"); Connection connection = connectionFactory.createConnection(); Session session = connection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE); MessageProducer producer = session.createProducer((Destination) envContext.lookup("jms/topic/MyTopic"));

Message testMessage = session.createMessage();
testMessage.setStringProperty("testKey", "testValue");
producer.send(testMessage);

} catch (NamingException e) { // TODO handle exception } catch (JMSException e) { // TODO handle exception }