Install ActiveMQ And Start ActiveMQ Server on Windows

Overview

In this article, we'll explore how to Install ActiveMQ And Start ActiveMQ Server on Windows.

What is a Apache ActiveMQ?

Apache ActiveMQ is the most used and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server. Apache ActiveMQ is a java based open source message broker that include a full Java Message Service (JMS) client. It provides "Enterprise Features" which in this case means allowing the communication from more than one client or server.

A message broker is an intermediary program module that converts a message from the sender's formal messaging protocol to the receiver's formal messaging protocol.

ActiveMQ setup

• Java

  Java is required for Apache ActiveMQ to work. Verify by using "java -version" command from the command prompt, if not present install from here.
  Note: Java version 1.7 or higher is needed for ActiveMQ 5.11 and later.

• Download ActiveMQ

  Download an ActiveMQ binary distribution and unpack it into a directory.


• Install

  Extract the downloaded zip in any folder.


• Start ActiveMQ

  Open command prompt window and use "activemq start" command from the bin folder folder.

D:\apache-activemq-5.15.15\bin>activemq start


• As highlighted that Apache ActiveMQ has started.

• Admin Console

  Enter the http://localhost:8161/ URL into web browser to access admin console.
• Login using credentials => username="admin" and password="admin".

• Click on the Manage ActiveMQ broker to access the main page.

• Now, you click and go to queues and topics from this page.


• Stop ActiveMQ

  Return to the command prompt where you started ActiveMQ and click CTRL+C , type option 'Y' to shutdown the server.