ActiveMQ

Getting started with ActiveMQ is a relatively simple process:

1. Download latest version of ActiveMQ from the website. Be sure to download the correct archive since the content is different:
2. For UNIX based systems the .tar.gz file (apache-activemq-X.Y.Z-bin.tar.gz)
3. For Windows the .zip file (apache-activemq-X.Y.Z-bin.zip)
4. Extract the archive to your harddrive.
5. The location is from now referred as ACTIVEMQ_HOME.
6. Jump into the director cd ACTIVEMQ_HOME
7. Start the application
8. UNIX
9. Direct: ./bin/activemq
10. Via the service wrapper ./bin/[unixname]/activemq
11. Windows
12. Direct bin\activemq.bat
13. Via the service wrapper bin\[win32|win64]\activemq.bat
14. Customize ActiveMQ by modifying ACTIVEMQ_HOME/conf/activemq.xml
15. Read the book for these advanced topics.