Apache ActiveMQ ™ -- Version 5 XML Configuration
Using ActiveMQ 5 > Version 5 XML Configuration
- transport connectors which consist of transport channels and wire formats TODO: add a link to a page explaining what transport connectors are how to configure and use them.
- network connectors using network channels or discovery TODO: add a link to a page explaining what network connectors are how to configure and use them.
- discovery agents TODO: add a link to a page explaining what discovery agents are how to configure and use them.
- persistence providers & locations TODO: add a link to a page explaining what persistence providers are how to configure and use them.
- custom message containers (such as last image caching etc)
We use XBean to perform the XML configuration.
For details of the XML see the Xml Reference
Be careful with broker names and URIs
Make sure you do not use any strange characters in the names of brokers as they are converted to URIs which do not allow things like underscores in them etc.
Examples
The default ActiveMQ configuration: current default config.
xml
From a binary distribution there is an activemq script allowing you to run a Message Broker as a stand alone process from the command line easily providing the $ACTIVEMQ_HOME/bin directory is on your PATH.
Configuring embedded brokers
You can also use the XML Configuration to configure embedded brokers. For example using the JNDI configuration mechanism you can do the following
BrokerXmlConfigFromJNDITest
Or of you want to explicitly configure the embedded broker via Java code you can do the following
BrokerXmlConfigTest
User Submitted Configurations
We have a page which allows users to submit details of their configurations.
Background
Since ActiveMQ has so many strategy pattern plugins for transports, wire formats, persistence and many other things, we wanted to leave the configuration format open so that you the developer can configure and extend ActiveMQ in any direction you wish.
So we use the Spring XML configuration file format, which allows any beans / POJOs to be wired together and configured. However often Spring's XML can be kinda verbose at times, so we have implemented an ActiveMQ extension to the Spring XML which knows about the common, standard ActiveMQ things you're likely to do (e.g. tags like connector, wireFormat, serverTransport, persistence) - but at any time you can fall back to the normal Spring way of doing things (with tags like bean, property etc).
To see documentation of the XML file we use or to get access to the XSD/DTD see the Xml Reference