Maven2 ActiveMQ Classic Broker Plugin

Tools > Maven2 ActiveMQ Classic Broker Plugin

ActiveMQ Classic provides a Maven2 plugin to easily startup a JMS broker. It is useful to quickly boot up a message broker in your Maven2 project for debugging or for doing integration tests.

 How to Use

Be Careful

The maven plugins in ActiveMQ Classic have been renamed in version 5.8.0+ to better follow the Maven plugin naming conventions. The ActiveMQ Classic Broker plugin has changed from ‘maven-activemq-plugin’ to ‘activemq-maven-plugin’.

Replace the 5.7.0 version string with the version of your choosing, eg: 5.6.0, 5.8-SNAPSHOT

In your Maven2 project, or using a minimal pom.xml like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.acme</groupId>
  <artifactId>run-amq</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</project>

just type:

mvn org.apache.activemq.tooling:maven-activemq-plugin:5.1:run

This will download the 5.7.0 version of the plugin, and spin up a broker using a simple configuration url of the form broker:(tcp://localhost:61616)?useJmx=false&persistent=false. The necessary ActiveMQ Classic jars will automatically be downloaded by Maven.

To configure log4j, provide the -Dlog4j.configuration=[file:///](file:///)<full path to log4j.properties> system property on the mvn command line.

If you require a more advanced configuration with spring support, the jetty webconsole or with embedded camel you can add the plugin in your pom.xml and provide the required optional dependencies. For the default conf/activemq.xml, the following dependencies are required :

 <build>    
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.activemq.tooling</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-activemq-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>5.7.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <configUri>xbean:file:../conf/activemq.xml</configUri>
          <fork>false</fork>
          <systemProperties>
            <property>
              <name>javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword</name>
              <value>password</value>
            </property>
            <property>
              <name>org.apache.activemq.default.directory.prefix</name>
              <value>./target/</value>
            </property>
          </systemProperties>
        </configuration>
        <dependencies>
			  <dependency>
		      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			    <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
		      <version>2.5.5</version>
			  </dependency>
			  <dependency>
		      <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
		      <artifactId>jetty-xbean</artifactId>
		      <version>6.1.11</version>
		    </dependency> 	
		    <dependency>
		      <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
		      <artifactId>camel-activemq</artifactId>
		      <version>1.1.0</version>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>			
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>
``
 and run it using:

mvn activemq:run ```

 Configuration Options

Note: By default, the broker plugin will set activemq.base, activemq.home, org.apache.activemq.default.directory.prefix, derby.system.home to ./target/. This means that all data folders will be created there, hence will easily be deleted by running mvn clean.