ActiveMQ in Action released

Book projects always (at least for me) takes quite longer to finish than you anticipate at the beginning. But unlike everything we do in software development, when it is finally finished, you get the real physical thing you can hold in your hands. And that’s always a great feeling. I’m happy to announce that ActiveMQ… Continue reading ActiveMQ in Action released

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ActiveMQ 5.5: Audit Logging

The PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard) v2.0, specifies that all user actions must be audited, so they can be inspected later if needed. To be deployable in such environments, we added audit logging to ActiveMQ. In this article you can find the basics on how to configure and use it. Here,… Continue reading ActiveMQ 5.5: Audit Logging

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How to monitor ActiveMQ networks

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

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ActiveMQ in Action in Production

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

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ActiveMQ 5.4.1: Encrypted passwords

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

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Securing ActiveMQ 5.3.1 console

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

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ActiveMQ 5.3.1 Released

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

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