ActiveMQ - How to setup and run from Mule 3.9

• Install ActiveMQ
  • Step 1: Download Apache Active MQ 5.x.x (5.15.8 Latest Version Up to Feb 2019)
  • Step 2: Install ActiveMQ
  • Run the Active MQ server(Run the command from any directory)
• Enable ActiveMQ Web Console
  • Testing the Installation
  • Monitoring ActiveMQ
  • ActiveMQ Overview Page
• Setting up & running Mule App with JMS Connector using Active MQ Service
  • Create New Mule App and Design Flow Active MQ with JMS
  • Adding the Maven Dependency in POM
  • Create A Queue in Active MQ
• Test Active MQ From Mule
  • Enqueue the message in Active MQ  named bjit
  • Test the mule-3.9 app
  • Active MQ Test Project in Mule-3.9

Install ActiveMQ

Here is the quick installation guideline for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Step 1: Download Apache Active MQ 5.x.x (5.15.8 Latest Version Up to Feb 2019)

http://activemq.apache.org/download.html

Step 2: Install ActiveMQ

Extract the Archive

sudo tar -zxvf apache-activemq-5.15.8-bin.tar.gz

Move to the activemq extracted folder

cd apache-activemq-5.15.8

Give permission to the executable  

chmod 755 activemq

Add the Environment Variable to the PATH

export ACTIVEMQ_HOME=/home/path-to-the-file-location/apache-activemq-5.15.8 export PATH=$PATH:$ACTIVEMQ_HOME/bin

Run the Active MQ server(Run the command from any directory)

command for start the server

activemq start

 

command for check status the server

activemq status

command for restart the server

activemq restart

For other Operating Systems please see the links below:

Installing on Windows

Installing on Mac/Unix

Enable ActiveMQ Web Console

ActiveMQ provides a web console to manage it easily. To enable the console, run the commands below

activemq console

Testing the Installation

ActiveMQ's default port is 61616. From another window, run netstat and search for port 61616.

Monitoring ActiveMQ

There are various ways to monitor ActiveMQ. If you are on version 4.2 or later of ActiveMQ, you can then monitor ActiveMQ, using the Web Console by pointing your browser at:

After that, open your browser and browse to the server name or IP address followed by port # 8161(Jetty proxy)

 http://localhost:8161/admin

You should see the ActiveMQ web management console to logon. The default username and password is the admin.

Username: admin

Password:  admin

ActiveMQ Overview Page

Setting up & running Mule App with JMS Connector using Active MQ Service

Create New Mule App and Design Flow Active MQ with JMS

Now create a new Mule project and add the following components to Mule flow:

Configure JMS Connector as ActiveMQ and broker url, user name , password

Adding the Maven Dependency in POM

<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId> <artifactId>activemq-all</artifactId> <version>5.15.8</version> </dependency>

Create A Queue in Active MQ

Login to ActiveMQ Web-console with admin user and create a queue with name "bjit" 

Sent The message 'Hello' to the JMS consumer

Now set the JMS Connector queue name as "bjit" to consume the queue messages

Set up the logger message and run the project.

Test Active MQ From Mule

Enqueue the message in Active MQ  named bjit

Test the mule-3.9 app

Check mule console log to check the output

Active MQ Test Project in Mule-3.9

For your convenience, the sample mule-3.9 project has been attached below

ActiveMQ Test App using Mule-3.9	activemq-request-processor.zip