Apache ActiveMQ -- XMPP

XMPP Protocol Support (Jabber!)

We have support for XMPP (Jabber) as a transport in ActiveMQ. It requires Apache ActiveMQ 4.1 or later and the activemq-xmpp library to be on the classpath. (The source code for activemq-xmpp is here).

To use just add a connector as follows

<broker xmlns="http://activemq.org/config/1.0">
    <transportConnectors>
       <transportConnector name="openwire" uri="tcp://localhost:61616" discoveryUri="multicast://default"/>
       <transportConnector name="stomp"    uri="stomp://localhost:61613"/>
       <transportConnector name="xmpp"     uri="xmpp://localhost:61222"/>
    </transportConnectors>
  </broker>

And you can now use XMPP to connect to the broker & send and receive messages.

XMPP Support in Apache ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ provides a bidirectional bridge between ActiveMQ messages and XMPP.

if a client joins a chatroom / conference room, the name of the conference room is mapped to a JMS topic of the same name
typing into a chatroom sends a message to the topic
presence in a chatroom maintains a subscription on the JMS topic (using noLocal to avoid getting copies of things you say) so that messages sent by other clients (via XMPP, the Web Console, the Examples or any other Cross Language Clients) are then sent to the chatroom.

Using a Jabber Client

For a good open source Jabber Client we highly recommend Spark. Mac users can also try using iChat

To connect to Apache ActiveMQ try the following...

1. Run the Web Console either from the source code or a binary Download of ActiveMQ 5 or later
2. start Spark or whatever Jabber Client you wish
3. login to localhost:61222

Some Jabber clients like to auto-discover the host and port. You need to explicitly disable this feature so you can explicitly configure localhost as the host and 61222 as the port.

e.g. on Spark go to the Advanced tab and disable the Automatically discover host and port

4. You should now see the following screen...

5. Now click on the Join Conference Room button (next to the Add Contact button) and the following dialog should appear

6. Now press the Create or Join Room button to get the following dialog. Enter a JMS topic name, in this case foo.bar and you're good to go...