Apache ActiveMQ Queue Based Example

Apache ActiveMQ Topic Based Example

Apache ActiveMQ Useful Resources

Apache ActiveMQ - Quick Guide

What is ActiveMQ?

ActiveMQ is an open source message broker written in Java. It's fully compliant with JMS 1.1 standards. It is developed and maintained by Apache Software Foundation and is licensed under Apache license. It provides high availability, scalability, reliability, performance and security for enterprise level messaging applications.

JMS is a specification that allows development of message based system. ActiveMQ acts as a broker of messages which sits in between applications and allows them to communicate in asynchronous and reliable way.

Types of Messaging

There are two types of messaging options explained below for better understanding.

Point to Point

In this type of communication, the broker sends messages to only one consumer, while the other consumers will wait till they get the messages from the broker. No consumer will get the same message.

If there are no consumers, the Broker will hold the messages till it gets a consumer. This type of communication is also called as Queue based communication where the Producer sends messages to a queue and only one consumer gets one message from the queue. If there is more than one consumer, they may get the next message but they wont get the same message as the other consumer.

Publish/Subscribe

In this type of communication, the Broker sends same copy of messages to all the active consumers. This type of communication is also known as Topic based communication where broker sends same message to all active consumer who has subscribed for particular Topic. This model supports one-way communication where no verification of transmitted messages is expected.

Apache ActiveMQ - Environment Setup

This chapter will guide you on how to prepare a development environment to start your work with ActiveMQ. It will also teach you how to set up JDK, Maven and Eclipse on your machine before you set up ActiveMQ −

Setup Java Development Kit (JDK)

You can download the latest version of SDK from Oracle's Java site − Java SE Downloads. You will find instructions for installing JDK in downloaded files, follow the given instructions to install and configure the setup. Finally set PATH and JAVA_HOME environment variables to refer to the directory that contains java and javac, typically java_install_dir/bin and java_install_dir respectively.

If you are running Windows and have installed the JDK in C:\jdk-19, you would have to put the following line in your C:\autoexec.bat file.

set PATH=C:\jdk-19;%PATH% 
set JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk-19

Alternatively, on Windows NT/2000/XP, you will have to right-click on My Computer, select Properties → Advanced → Environment Variables. Then, you will have to update the PATH value and click the OK button.

On Unix (Solaris, Linux, etc.), if the SDK is installed in /usr/local/jdk-19 and you use the C shell, you will have to put the following into your .cshrc file.

setenv PATH /usr/local/jdk-19/bin:$PATH 
setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk-19

Alternatively, if you use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) like Borland JBuilder, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, or Sun ONE Studio, you will have to compile and run a simple program to confirm that the IDE knows where you have installed Java. Otherwise, you will have to carry out a proper setup as given in the document of the IDE.

Setup Eclipse IDE

All the examples in this tutorial have been written using Eclipse IDE. So we would suggest you should have the latest version of Eclipse installed on your machine.

To install Eclipse IDE, download the latest Eclipse binaries from www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Once you download the installation, unpack the binary distribution into a convenient location. For example, in C:\eclipse on Windows, or /usr/local/eclipse on Linux/Unix and finally set PATH variable appropriately.

Eclipse can be started by executing the following commands on Windows machine, or you can simply double-click on eclipse.exe

%C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe

Eclipse can be started by executing the following commands on Unix (Solaris, Linux, etc.) machine −

$/usr/local/eclipse/eclipse

After a successful startup, if everything is fine then it should display the following result −

Set Maven

In this tutorial, we are using maven to run and build the spring based examples to run ActiveMQ based applications. Follow the Maven - Environment Setup to install maven.

Download ActiveMQ

You can download the latest stable version of ActiveMQ from its official page. Follow the Download ActivMQ to download ActiveMQ. We've used the 6.1.7 released on Jun 22nd, 2025. Extract the content of archive in the folder of your choice. We've extracted to D:/ &arr; apache-activemq-6.1.7.

Apache ActiveMQ - Features

ActiveMQ is designed to provide high availability, scalability, reliability, performance and security for enterprise level messaging applications. Following are some of the salient features of ActiveMQ.

JMS Compliant − ActiveMQ is fully compliant with JMS 1.1 standards. JMS spec provides a standard mechanism for synchronous or asynchronous message delivery, once-and-only-once message delivery, message durability for subscribers, etc.
Connectivity Options − ActiveMQ supports HTTP/S, multicast, SSL, Stomp, TCP, UDP, XMPP, thus providing a wide range of options for connectivity and allows various systems to communicate using their choice of protocols.
Pluggable Architecture − ActiveMQ allows to choose a persistence mechanism and also provides options to customize security for authentication and authorization as per the application needs.
Multi-Platform − ActiveMQ provides client APIs for many popular languages like Java, C, C++, .NET, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby etc. ActiveMQ Broker will run in JVM but clients can be written using any of the supported languages.
Broker Cluster − ActiveMQ allows to prepare a network of brokers for scalability and can support different types of topologies.
Features Rich − ActiveMQ provides many advanced features for both broker and clients and support Apache Camel.
Simple Administration Interface − ActiveMQ administration console is easy to use but still provides many powerful administration features.

Apache ActiveMQ - Running Broker Server

We've downloaded the latest version of ActiveMQ as mentioned in ActiveMQ - Environment Setup. Now go to the folder D:/apache-activemq-6.1.7/bin and type the following command.

Example

D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin>activemq start

Output

You'll see the similar output and ActiveMQ will start running.

Java Runtime: Oracle Corporation 19.0.2 C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-19
  Heap sizes: current=1048576k  free=1039360k  max=1048576k
    JVM args: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Xms1G -Xmx1G -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -Djava.security.auth.login.config=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\conf\login.config -Dactivemq.classpath=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\conf;D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\../conf;D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\../conf; -Dactivemq.home=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\.. -Dactivemq.base=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\.. -Dactivemq.conf=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\conf -Dactivemq.data=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data -Djolokia.conf=file:D:\\apache-activemq-6.1.7\\bin\\..\\conf\\jolokia-access.xml -Djava.io.tmpdir=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\tmp
Extensions classpath:
  [D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib,D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib\camel,D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib\optional,D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib\web,D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib\extra]
ACTIVEMQ_HOME: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..
ACTIVEMQ_BASE: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..
ACTIVEMQ_CONF: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\conf
ACTIVEMQ_DATA: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data
Loading message broker from: xbean:activemq.xml
 INFO | Using Persistence Adapter: KahaDBPersistenceAdapter[D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\kahadb]
 INFO | Starting Persistence Adapter: KahaDBPersistenceAdapter[D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\kahadb]
 INFO | Starting KahaDBStore
 INFO | Opening MessageDatabase
 INFO | Page File: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\kahadb\db.data. Recovering pageFile free list due to prior unclean shutdown..
 INFO | KahaDB is version 7
 INFO | Page File: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\kahadb\db.data. Recovered pageFile free list of size: 0
 INFO | Starting Temp Data Store
 INFO | PListStore:[D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\localhost\tmp_storage] started
 INFO | Starting Job Scheduler Store
 INFO | Persistence Adapter successfully started
 INFO | Apache ActiveMQ 6.1.7 (localhost, ID:Home-55627-1754044777586-0:1) is starting
 INFO | Listening for connections at: tcp://Home:61616?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector openwire started
 INFO | Listening for connections at: amqp://Home:5672?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector amqp started
 INFO | Listening for connections at: stomp://Home:61613?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector stomp started
 INFO | Listening for connections at: mqtt://Home:1883?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector mqtt started
 INFO | Starting Jetty server
 INFO | Creating Jetty connector
 WARN | ServletContext@o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler@1a1f5f71{/,null,STARTING} has uncovered HTTP methods for the following paths: [/]
 INFO | Listening for connections at ws://Home:61614?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector ws started
 INFO | Apache ActiveMQ 6.1.7 (localhost, ID:Home-55627-1754044777586-0:1) started
 INFO | For help or more information please see: http://activemq.apache.org
 INFO | ActiveMQ WebConsole available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/
 INFO | ActiveMQ Jolokia REST API available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/api/jolokia/

Verification

Now open http://127.0.0.1:8161/admin/ in your browser. It will ask for credentials. Use admin/admin as username/password and it will load the ActiveMQ admin console where you can check Queues, Topics, Connections etc.

Apache ActiveMQ - Running Broker Server

We've downloaded the latest version of ActiveMQ as mentioned in ActiveMQ - Environment Setup. Now go to the folder D:/apache-activemq-6.1.7/bin and type the following command.

Example

D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin>activemq start

Output

You'll see the similar output and ActiveMQ will start running.

Java Runtime: Oracle Corporation 19.0.2 C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-19
  Heap sizes: current=1048576k  free=1039360k  max=1048576k
    JVM args: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Xms1G -Xmx1G -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -Djava.security.auth.login.config=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\conf\login.config -Dactivemq.classpath=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\conf;D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\../conf;D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\../conf; -Dactivemq.home=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\.. -Dactivemq.base=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\.. -Dactivemq.conf=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\conf -Dactivemq.data=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data -Djolokia.conf=file:D:\\apache-activemq-6.1.7\\bin\\..\\conf\\jolokia-access.xml -Djava.io.tmpdir=D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\tmp
Extensions classpath:
  [D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib,D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib\camel,D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib\optional,D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib\web,D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\lib\extra]
ACTIVEMQ_HOME: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..
ACTIVEMQ_BASE: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..
ACTIVEMQ_CONF: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\conf
ACTIVEMQ_DATA: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data
Loading message broker from: xbean:activemq.xml
 INFO | Using Persistence Adapter: KahaDBPersistenceAdapter[D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\kahadb]
 INFO | Starting Persistence Adapter: KahaDBPersistenceAdapter[D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\kahadb]
 INFO | Starting KahaDBStore
 INFO | Opening MessageDatabase
 INFO | Page File: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\kahadb\db.data. Recovering pageFile free list due to prior unclean shutdown..
 INFO | KahaDB is version 7
 INFO | Page File: D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\kahadb\db.data. Recovered pageFile free list of size: 0
 INFO | Starting Temp Data Store
 INFO | PListStore:[D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin\..\data\localhost\tmp_storage] started
 INFO | Starting Job Scheduler Store
 INFO | Persistence Adapter successfully started
 INFO | Apache ActiveMQ 6.1.7 (localhost, ID:Home-55627-1754044777586-0:1) is starting
 INFO | Listening for connections at: tcp://Home:61616?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector openwire started
 INFO | Listening for connections at: amqp://Home:5672?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector amqp started
 INFO | Listening for connections at: stomp://Home:61613?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector stomp started
 INFO | Listening for connections at: mqtt://Home:1883?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector mqtt started
 INFO | Starting Jetty server
 INFO | Creating Jetty connector
 WARN | ServletContext@o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler@1a1f5f71{/,null,STARTING} has uncovered HTTP methods for the following paths: [/]
 INFO | Listening for connections at ws://Home:61614?maximumConnections=1000&wireFormat.maxFrameSize=104857600
 INFO | Connector ws started
 INFO | Apache ActiveMQ 6.1.7 (localhost, ID:Home-55627-1754044777586-0:1) started
 INFO | For help or more information please see: http://activemq.apache.org
 INFO | ActiveMQ WebConsole available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/
 INFO | ActiveMQ Jolokia REST API available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/api/jolokia/

Verification

Apache ActiveMQ - Admin Console

Once ActiveMQ server is up and running. You can use the admin console to manage queues, topics, subscribers, connections, network etc.

Open http://127.0.0.1:8161/admin/ in your browser. It will ask for credentials. Use admin/admin as username/password and it will load the ActiveMQ admin console where you can check Queues, Topics, Connections etc.

Queue

Click on Queue tab, enter a queue name as testQueue and click on create button. Now you can see the queue in the list.

Topic

Similarly, you can create Topic and check topics in Topics tab.

Others

In the same way, you can explore subscribers, connections, network bridges, schedulers details.

Send

Send tab allows to send a JMS Message to a particular queue or topic by specifying the destination and other details.

Apache ActiveMQ - Producer Application

Now let's create a producer application which will send message to the ActiveMQ Queue.

Create Project

Using eclipse, select File &arr; New → Maven Project. Tick the Create a simple project(skip archetype selection) and click Next.

Enter the details, as shown below −

groupId − com.tutorialspoint
artifactId − producer
version − 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
name − ActiveMQ Producer

Click on Finish button and a new project will be created.

pom.xml

Now update the content of pom.xml to include dependencies for ActiveMQ.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
   https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.tutorialspoint.activemq</groupId>
   <artifactId>producer</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>ActiveMQ Producer</name>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
         <artifactId>geronimo-jms_1.1_spec</artifactId>
         <version>1.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.qpid</groupId>
         <artifactId>qpid-jms-client</artifactId>
         <version>0.40.0</version>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
      <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <configuration>
               <source>19</source>
               <target>19</target>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.fusesource.mvnplugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-uberize-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.14</version>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <phase>package</phase>
                  <goals><goal>uberize</goal></goals>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>  
</project>

Now create a Producer class which will send message to the ActiveMQ Queue.

package com.tutorialspoint.activemq;

import java.io.Console;
import java.util.Scanner;

import javax.jms.Connection;
import javax.jms.Destination;
import javax.jms.MessageProducer;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;

import org.apache.qpid.jms.JmsConnectionFactory;

public class Producer {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

      // Create a connection to ActiveMQ JMS broker using AMQP protocol
      JmsConnectionFactory factory = new JmsConnectionFactory("amqp://localhost:5672");
      Connection connection = factory.createConnection("admin", "password");
      connection.start();

      // Create a session
      Session session = connection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);

      // Create a queue
      Destination destination = session.createQueue("MyFirstQueue");

      // Create a producer specific to queue
      MessageProducer producer = session.createProducer(destination);

      Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
      String response;
      do {
         System.out.println("Enter message: ");
         response = input.nextLine();
         // Create a message object
         TextMessage msg = session.createTextMessage(response);

         // Send the message to the queue
         producer.send(msg);

      } while (!response.equalsIgnoreCase("Quit"));
      input.close();

      // Close the connection
      connection.close();
   }
}

Producer class creates a connection, starts the session, creates a producer and then asks user to enter message. If user enters "Quit" then application terminates else it will send the message to the queue.

We'll run this application in ActiveMQ - Test Application chapter.

Apache ActiveMQ - Consumer Application

Now let's create a consumer application which will receive message from the ActiveMQ Queue.

Create Project

Using eclipse, select File &arr; New → Maven Project. Tick the Create a simple project(skip archetype selection) and click Next.

Enter the details, as shown below −

groupId − com.tutorialspoint
artifactId − consumer
version − 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
name − ActiveMQ Consumer

Click on Finish button and a new project will be created.

pom.xml

Now update the content of pom.xml to include dependencies for ActiveMQ.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
   https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.tutorialspoint.activemq</groupId>
   <artifactId>consumer</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>ActiveMQ Consumer</name>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
         <artifactId>geronimo-jms_1.1_spec</artifactId>
         <version>1.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.qpid</groupId>
         <artifactId>qpid-jms-client</artifactId>
         <version>0.40.0</version>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
      <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <configuration>
               <source>19</source>
               <target>19</target>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.fusesource.mvnplugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-uberize-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.14</version>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <phase>package</phase>
                  <goals><goal>uberize</goal></goals>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>  
</project>

Now create a Consumer class which will receive message from the ActiveMQ Queue.

package com.tutorialspoint.activemq;

import java.io.Console;

import javax.jms.Connection;
import javax.jms.Destination;
import javax.jms.Message;
import javax.jms.MessageConsumer;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;

import org.apache.qpid.jms.JmsConnectionFactory;

public class Consumer {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      // Create a connection to ActiveMQ JMS broker using AMQP protocol
      JmsConnectionFactory factory = new JmsConnectionFactory("amqp://localhost:5672");
      Connection connection = factory.createConnection("admin", "password");
      connection.start();

      // Create a session
      Session session = connection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);

      // Create a queue
      Destination destination = session.createQueue("MyFirstQueue");

      // Create a consumer specific to queue
      MessageConsumer consumer = session.createConsumer(destination);

      Console c = System.console();
      String response;
      do {      	
         // Receive the message
         Message msg = consumer.receive();
         response = ((TextMessage) msg).getText();

         System.out.println("Received = "+response);

      } while (!response.equalsIgnoreCase("Quit"));

      // Close the connection
      connection.close();
   }
}

Consumer class creates a connection, starts the session, creates a consumer and then receives message from queue if there is any. If queue contains quit as message then application terminates else it will keep polling queue for messages.

We'll run this application in ActiveMQ - Test Application chapter.

Apache ActiveMQ - Test Application

Start ActiveMQ Server

Now let's start the ActiveMQ Server. Go to the folder D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin and type the following command.

Example

D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin>activemq start

Output

You'll see the similar output and ActiveMQ will start running.

...
 INFO | Apache ActiveMQ 6.1.7 (localhost, ID:Home-55627-1754044777586-0:1) started
 INFO | For help or more information please see: http://activemq.apache.org
 INFO | ActiveMQ WebConsole available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/
 INFO | ActiveMQ Jolokia REST API available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/api/jolokia/

Start the Producer Application

In eclipse, right click on the Producer.java source, and select Run As > Java Application. Producer application will start running and you'll see the output as follows −

Enter message:

Start the Consumer Application

In eclipse, right click on the Consumer.java source, and select Run As > Java Application. Consumer application will start running and you'll see the output as follows −

Send Message

In Producer console window, type Hi and press enter button to send the message.

Enter message:
Hi

Receive Message

Verify in Consumer console window, the message is received.

Received = Hi

Send Quit as message to terminate both producer and consumer console window sessions.

Verification

Apache ActiveMQ - Publisher Application

Now let's create a publisher application which will send message to the ActiveMQ Queue.

Create Project

Using eclipse, select File &arr; New → Maven Project. Tick the Create a simple project(skip archetype selection) and click Next.

Enter the details, as shown below −

groupId − com.tutorialspoint
artifactId − publisher
version − 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
name − ActiveMQ Publisher

Click on Finish button and a new project will be created.

pom.xml

Now update the content of pom.xml to include dependencies for ActiveMQ.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
   https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.tutorialspoint.activemq</groupId>
   <artifactId>publisher</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>ActiveMQ Publisher</name>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
         <artifactId>geronimo-jms_1.1_spec</artifactId>
         <version>1.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.qpid</groupId>
         <artifactId>qpid-jms-client</artifactId>
         <version>0.40.0</version>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
      <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <configuration>
               <source>19</source>
               <target>19</target>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.fusesource.mvnplugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-uberize-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.14</version>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <phase>package</phase>
                  <goals><goal>uberize</goal></goals>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>  
</project>

Now create a Publisher class which will send message to the ActiveMQ topic to broadcast it to all the subscribers.

package com.tutorialspoint.activemq;

import java.util.Scanner;

import javax.jms.Connection;
import javax.jms.Destination;
import javax.jms.MessageProducer;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;

import org.apache.qpid.jms.JmsConnectionFactory;

public class Publisher {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      // Create a connection to ActiveMQ JMS broker using AMQP protocol
      JmsConnectionFactory factory = new JmsConnectionFactory("amqp://localhost:5672");
      Connection connection = factory.createConnection("admin", "password");
      connection.start();

      // Create a session
      Session session = connection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);

      // Create a topic
      Destination destination = session.createTopic("MyFirstTopic");

      // Create a publisher specific to topic
      MessageProducer publisher = session.createProducer(destination);

      Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
      String response;
      do {
         System.out.println("Enter message: ");
         response = input.nextLine();
         // Create a message object
         TextMessage msg = session.createTextMessage(response);

         // Send the message to the topic
         publisher.send(msg);

      } while (!response.equalsIgnoreCase("Quit"));
      input.close();

      // Close the connection
      connection.close();
   }
}

We'll run this application in ActiveMQ - Test Application chapter.

Apache ActiveMQ - Subscriber Application

Now let's create a subscriber application which will receive message from the ActiveMQ Topic.

Create Project

Using eclipse, select File &arr; New → Maven Project. Tick the Create a simple project(skip archetype selection) and click Next.

Enter the details, as shown below −

groupId − com.tutorialspoint
artifactId − subscriber
version − 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
name − ActiveMQ Subscriber

Click on Finish button and a new project will be created.

pom.xml

Now update the content of pom.xml to include dependencies for ActiveMQ.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
   https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.tutorialspoint.activemq</groupId>
   <artifactId>subscriber</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>ActiveMQ Subscriber</name>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
         <artifactId>geronimo-jms_1.1_spec</artifactId>
         <version>1.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.qpid</groupId>
         <artifactId>qpid-jms-client</artifactId>
         <version>0.40.0</version>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
      <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <configuration>
               <source>19</source>
               <target>19</target>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.fusesource.mvnplugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-uberize-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.14</version>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <phase>package</phase>
                  <goals><goal>uberize</goal></goals>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>  
</project>

Now create a Subscriber class which will receive message from the ActiveMQ Topic.

package com.tutorialspoint.activemq;

import java.io.Console;

import javax.jms.Connection;
import javax.jms.Destination;
import javax.jms.Message;
import javax.jms.MessageConsumer;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;

import org.apache.qpid.jms.JmsConnectionFactory;

public class Subscriber {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      // Create a connection to ActiveMQ JMS broker using AMQP protocol
      JmsConnectionFactory factory = new JmsConnectionFactory("amqp://localhost:5672");
      Connection connection = factory.createConnection("admin", "password");
      connection.start();

      // Create a session
      Session session = connection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);

      // Create a topic
      Destination destination = session.createTopic("MyFirstTopic");

      // Create a subscriber specific to topic
      MessageConsumer subscriber = session.createConsumer(destination);

      Console c = System.console();
      String response;
      do {      	
         // Receive the message
         Message msg = subscriber.receive();
         response = ((TextMessage) msg).getText();

         System.out.println("Received = "+response);

      } while (!response.equalsIgnoreCase("Quit"));

      // Close the connection
      connection.close();
   }
}

Subscriber class creates a connection, starts the session, creates a consumer and then receives message from topic if there is any. If topic contains "Quit" as message then application terminates else it will keep polling queue for messages.

We'll run this application multiple times to create multiple subscribers in ActiveMQ - Test Application chapter.

Apache ActiveMQ - Test Topic Based Application

Start ActiveMQ Server

Now let's start the ActiveMQ Server. Go to the folder D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin and type the following command.

Example

D:\apache-activemq-6.1.7\bin>activemq start

Output

You'll see the similar output and ActiveMQ will start running.

...
 INFO | Apache ActiveMQ 6.1.7 (localhost, ID:Home-55627-1754044777586-0:1) started
 INFO | For help or more information please see: http://activemq.apache.org
 INFO | ActiveMQ WebConsole available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/
 INFO | ActiveMQ Jolokia REST API available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/api/jolokia/

Start the Publisher Application

In eclipse, right click on the Publisher.java source, and select Run As > Java Application. Publisher application will start running and you'll see the output as follows −

Enter message:

Start the Subscriber Application

In eclipse, right click on the Consumer.java source, and select Run As > Java Application. Subscriber application will start running and you'll see the output as follows −

Start another Subscriber Application

In eclipse, again right click on the Subscriber.java source, and select Run As > Java Application. Another Subscriber application will start running and you'll see the output as follows −

Send Message

In Publisher console window, type Hi and press enter button to send the message.

Enter message:
Hi

Receive Message

Verify in Subscriber console windows, the message is received in each window.

Received = Hi

Send "Quit" as message to terminate both publisher and subscriber console window sessions.

Verification

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Apache ActiveMQ Queue Based Example

Apache ActiveMQ Topic Based Example

Apache ActiveMQ Useful Resources

Apache ActiveMQ - Quick Guide

Apache ActiveMQ - Overview

What is ActiveMQ?

Types of Messaging

Point to Point

Publish/Subscribe

Apache ActiveMQ - Environment Setup

Setup Java Development Kit (JDK)

Setup Eclipse IDE

Set Maven

Download ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ - Features

Apache ActiveMQ - Running Broker Server

Example

Output

Verification

Apache ActiveMQ - Running Broker Server

Example

Output

Verification

Apache ActiveMQ - Admin Console

Queue

Topic

Others

Send

Apache ActiveMQ - Producer Application

Create Project

pom.xml

Apache ActiveMQ - Consumer Application

Create Project

pom.xml

Apache ActiveMQ - Test Application

Start ActiveMQ Server

Example

Output

Start the Producer Application

Start the Consumer Application

Send Message

Receive Message

Verification

Apache ActiveMQ - Publisher Application

Create Project

pom.xml

Apache ActiveMQ - Subscriber Application

Create Project

pom.xml

Apache ActiveMQ - Test Topic Based Application

Start ActiveMQ Server

Example

Output

Start the Publisher Application

Start the Subscriber Application

Start another Subscriber Application

Send Message

Receive Message

Verification