Fuse Message Broker 5.0.0.26 released

Fuse Message Broker 5.0.0.26 is just released. It’s mostly a work towards better stability, but there is also a couple of important bug fixes (release notes). If you’re still on ActiveMQ 5.0 branch, be sure to give it a try.

Unacking messages with Stomp

Quite often people ask how to “unacknowledge” the message using Stomp. I wrote a brief FAQ entry (with an example): http://activemq.apache.org/how-do-i-unack-the-message-with-stomp.html Also, be sure to use 5.3-SNAPSHOT (or later), since there were some improvements in that area recently.

New chapters of ActiveMQ in Action are available online

If you’re looking for ActiveMQ documentation, you can try reading online chapters of “ActiveMQ in Action” using Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) – http://www.manning.com/snyder/ New chapters has just been added: Chapter 2 provides a detailed overview of ActiceMQ Chapter 4 explains ActiveMQs message persistence options Chapter 7 addresses the aspects related to providing messaging services… Continue reading New chapters of ActiveMQ in Action are available online

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Message groups just got a bit better

As the first sentence of the message groups documentation page says: message groups rock. One of the problem with them, however, was an inappropriate behavior in case you’re adding your consumers for the messages already stored in the broker (with appropriate message group parameters set). This also causes that message groups are not honored in… Continue reading Message groups just got a bit better

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Apache ActiveMQ 5.2

Apache ActiveMQ 5.2 is finally released. It is mainly a maintenance release, but there are also a couple of new features, like extended Advisory support and such. If you use ActiveMQ, be sure to give this release a try.

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Stomp v1.1 thoughts

Update: There is now a wiki page on Stomp site for this, please go there if you are interested in Stomp v1.1 As discussed in this thread some time ago, there is a need to start working on Stomp version 1.1 protocol specification (and implementation), if nothing else then to support types for message properties.… Continue reading Stomp v1.1 thoughts

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Jettison in practice

Joel Confino of Chariot Solutions, LLC wrote an article on building Web 2.0 Web applications using jQuery, Spring MVC, and XStream/Jettison. It’s good to see Jettison in practice 🙂

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