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Getting Started
Welcome to Apache ActiveMQ. This document gives you a quick overview of how to get started trying out
Apache ActiveMQ.
cd bin
activemq.bat start
./bin/activemq console
Tip: If you run the bin/activemq command without any arguments it will output usage.
To stop the broker you can press ctrl + c to stop the process.
./bin/activemq start
to start the broker in background. The broker will write to its log in the data/activemq.log file.
cd bin
activemq.bat stop
./bin/activemq stop
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The broker may ask for credentials to login the web console the first time. The default username and
password is admin/admin. You can configure this in the conf/jetty-real.properties file.
In a web browser you can access the url http://0.0.0.0:8161/demo to access the ActiveMQ web demos.
The broker may ask for credentials to login the web console the first time. The default username and
password is admin/admin. You can configure this in the conf/jetty-real.properties file.
Installing Ant
The example programs depend on Ant being installed. There are more detailed instructions on the Ant
website - but essentially you need to follow these steps.
JAVA_HOME must point to your JDK installation, such that $JAVA_HOME/bin contains the java
executable and $JAVA_HOME/lib contains some jar files.
ANT_HOME must point to where you installed Apache Ant (http://ant.apache.org)
then you need to add $JAVA_HOME/bin and $ANT_HOME/bin to your PATH variable.
java -version
cd examples/openwire/swissarmy
ant -version
Once you've got Java and Ant installed correctly you should be able to run
cd examples/openwire/swissarmy
ant consumer
cd examples/openwire/swissarmy
ant producer
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you can specify exact URLs to connect to via command like arguments. e.g.
ant producer -Durl=tcp://somehost:port
Further Readings
You can find more details about Apache ActiveMQ at its website http://activemq.apache.org, as well the
guide getting started guide.
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