Author: Dejan Bosanac

If you’re running ActiveMQ in a distributed setup using network of brokers, you’re probably interested in techniques available to monitor your network. This usually implies viewing the status of the network bridges and generating events when the status changes. There were some improvements in this area for the next 5.5 release and here I’ll try… Continue reading How to monitor ActiveMQ networks

It’s always a good feeling when the book project goes into the production, and that’s what happened to ActiveMQ in Action this week. If you already bought MEAP access plus printed version of the book, you can expect your printed version in the next few months. If not, it’s still not too late as we’re… Continue reading ActiveMQ in Action in Production

While configuring ActiveMQ for a production use, you usually need to store passwords in your configuration files. Passwords are usually needed for: Simple authentication plugin JDBC/LDAP passwords Accessing secured brokers by Web Console, Camel, etc Naturally, people don’t want to keep plain passwords in the configuration files. ActiveMQ 5.4.1 comes with a solution for that.… Continue reading ActiveMQ 5.4.1: Encrypted passwords

Apache ActiveMQ 5.4.0 is out. Beside our usual dedication to making it bullet-proof by adding a lot of test cases and resolving issues reported by our vibrant community, this release contains a lot of new features (some of which has already been covered here). In this post I’ll try to sum up the new features… Continue reading What’s new in Apache ActiveMQ 5.4.0

When you’re sending messages to a cluster of ActiveMQ brokers using failover protocol and the current broker dies, the transport will try to connect and send messages to the next one. If that one is unavailable it will try next and so on and so on. So what happens when all brokers in the cluster… Continue reading Fast producer failover with ActiveMQ

For upcoming ActiveMQ 5.4.0 release we did a lot of work to make it a better citizen in OSGi land. Let’s walk through some of the stuff you can do now. First of all download and install recently released Apache Karaf 2.0.0. Now if you want to play with all these stuff before the ActiveMQ… Continue reading ActiveMQ 5.4: Seamless OSGi Integration

In many environments, users want to restrict access to ActiveMQ web server (Jetty) and web console application in particular. Here’s how to do it for ActiveMQ 5.3.1 version of broker. In 5.3.1, the whole web server configuration is placed in the ${ACTIVEMQ_HOME}/conf/jetty.xml file. The configuration file you can find at here is a drop-in replacement… Continue reading Securing ActiveMQ 5.3.1 console

Apache ActiveMQ 5.3.1 has just been released. It’s primarily the maintenance release, including nearly 100 bug fixes and improvements over the previous 5.3.0 version. The full list of improvements and bug fixes, as well as the download link, can be found at the release page. JDBC message store – a big effort has been made… Continue reading ActiveMQ 5.3.1 Released

Exchanging messages with the broker directly from the web browser was always interesting use case (and used by many developers). That’s why ActiveMQ was supporting Ajax API for the long time. It uses Jetty Continuations to implement threadless waiting and asynchronous delivery of messages to the web page. HTML 5 introduced web sockets, as a… Continue reading ActiveMQ 5.4: Stomp over Web Sockets