Chapter 1. Instant Apache ActiveMQ Messaging Application Development How-to

At its core ActiveMQ is a Java Messaging Service (JMS) specification-compliant Message-oriented middleware (MOM) broker. In this book we are going to explore the JMS application development model using ActiveMQ. We will also look at some features of ActiveMQ that go beyond what's provided in the plain JMS specification.

Installing ActiveMQ (Simple)

Before you can start developing with ActiveMQ you need to install the ActiveMQ Broker and get it running on your system. We'll cover the basic steps needed to install ActiveMQ here.

Getting ready

The first thing you need to do is ensure that you have the Java SDK installed. ActiveMQ v5.8.0 requires at least Java 1.6, although 1.7 ...

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