Instant Apache ActiveMQ Messaging Application Development How-to

Dividing up work with queues (Simple)

In this recipe we look at how the JMS queue can be used to divide up work with a simple job queue example.

Getting ready

For this recipe we will use the two examples named job-producer and job-consumer that implement a simple job producer and consumer.

How to do it...

To run the sample for this recipe you will need to perform the following steps:

1. Open a terminal and start a broker.
2. Open a second terminal and change to the directory where job-consumer is located. Run the consumer by typing mvn compile exec:java. (You can use Ctrl + C to terminate this app when done, it will stop on its own after five minutes.)
3. Open a third terminal and change to the directory where job-producer is located and run the producer by typing ...