Apache ActiveMQ 5.3 is primarily a maintenance release which resolves 334 issues.
New Features in 5.3
The new features and enhancements in this release include:
- New KahaDB persistent storage
- Camel 2.0.0 along with its web console
- stomp over SSL and NIO support
- Improved configuration - default one production oriented and a lot of use case configuration examples (like scalability and throughput)
- Ability to query broker for statistics from non-Java clients (by sending a message)
- More broker plugins included to help tracing messages in networks, improving logging, etc.
- FTP support for blob messages
- Improved activemq-admin to lookup for local processes if possible
- ... and much more
Getting the Binary Distributions
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Getting the Binaries using Maven 2
To use this release in your maven project, the proper dependency configuration that you should use in your Maven POM is:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
<artifactId>activemq-core</artifactId>
<version>5.3.0</version>
</dependency>
Getting the Source Code
Source Distributions
SVN Tag Checkout
Changelog
For a more detailed view of new features and bug fixes, see the release notes
Also see the previous ActiveMQ 5.2.0 Release
