ActiveMQ In Action

Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book

Part 1: An introduction to messaging and ActiveMQ
1. Introduction to Apache ActiveMQ
-ActiveMQ features
-Using ActiveMQ: why and when?
-Getting started with ActiveMQ Running your first examples with ActiveMQ
-Summary

2. Understanding message-oriented middleware and JMS
-Introduction to enterprise messaging
-What's message-oriented middleware?
-What's the Java Message Service?
-The JMS specification
-Using the JMS APIs to create JMS applications
-Summary

3. The ActiveMQ in Action examples
-Downloading Maven and compiling the examples
-Use case one: the stock portfolio example
-Use case two: the job queue example
-Summary

Part 2: Configuring standard ActiveMQ components
4. Connecting to ActiveMQ
-Understanding connector URIs
-Transport connectors
-Connecting to ActiveMQ over the network
-Connecting to ActiveMQ inside the virtual machine (VM connector)
-Network connectors
-Summary

5. ActiveMQ message storage
-How are messages stored by ActiveMQ?
-The KahaDB message store
-The AMQ message store
-The JDBC message store
-The memory message store
-Caching messages in the broker for consumers
-Summary

6. Securing ActiveMQ
-Authentication
-Authorization
-Building a custom security plug-in
-Certificate-based security
-Summary

Part 3: Using ActiveMQ to build messaging applications
7. Creating Java applications with ActiveMQ
-Embedding ActiveMQ using Java
-Embedding ActiveMQ using Spring
-Implementing request/reply with JMS
-Writing JMS clients using Spring
-Summary

8. Integrating ActiveMQ with application servers
-The sample web application
-Integrating with Apache Tomcat
-Integrating with Jetty
-Integrating with Apache Geronimo
-Integrating with JBoss
-ActiveMQ and JNDI
-Summary

9. ActiveMQ messaging for other languages
-Adapting the stock portfolio example
-Messaging for scripting languages
-Messaging for compiled languages
-Messaging on the web with ActiveMQ
-Summary

Part 4: Advanced features in ActiveMQ
10. Deploying ActiveMQ in the enterprise
-Configuring ActiveMQ for high availability
-How ActiveMQ passes messages across a network of brokers
-Deploying ActiveMQ for large numbers of concurrent applications
-Summary

11. ActiveMQ broker features in action
-Wildcards and composite destinations
-Advisory messages
-Supercharge JMS topics by going virtual
-Retroactive consumers
-Message redelivery and dead-letter queues
-Extending functionality with interceptor plug-ins
-Routing engine with Apache Camel framework
-Summary

12. Advanced client options
-Exclusive consumers
-Message groups
-ActiveMQ streams
-Blob messages
-Surviving network or broker failure with the failover protocol
-Scheduling messages to be delivered by ActiveMQ in the future
-Summary

13. Tuning ActiveMQ for performance
-General techniques
-Optimizing message producers
-Optimizing message consumers
-Tuning in action
-Summary

14. Administering and monitoring ActiveMQ
-The JMX API and ActiveMQ
-Monitoring ActiveMQ with advisory messages
-Tools for ActiveMQ administration
-Configuring ActiveMQ logging
-Summary

Index