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.