ActiveMQ Installation For Windows

Installation Procedure for Windows

This section of the Getting Started Guide explains how to install binary and source distributions of ActiveMQ on a Windows system.

 Windows Binary Installation

This procedure explains how to download and install the binary distribution on a Windows system

 1.     Download Here ActiveMQ
For a binary distribution, the filename will be similar to: activemq-x.x.x.zip.

 2.     Extract the files from the ZIP file into a directory of your choice.

 3.     go to console and type:

cd  [activemq_install_dir]                 //The directory path where u have extract that zip. ex: c:\program                                                          files\activitemq-5.5.1)

 4.     Execute this:

For 64 bit. computer:

   bin\activemq\                     

For 32 bit:  bin\win32 \activemq

Note:: Donot Close the console.

Step5: ActiveMQ admin command

ActiveMQ is taking configuration details via simple xml (default:activemq.xml) file located in conf directory.

1	Go to : activemq/conf/activemq.xml

Make a small change in activemq.xml and your activemq-admin command will start working
Change the default createConnector=”false” to createConnector=”true” like below:

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<managementContext>      <managementContext createConnector="true"/>    </managementContext>

Now you can use below command for starting Apache ActiveMQ, stopping it and listing the connected brokers.

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activemq/bin/activemq-admin start    activemq/bin/activemq-admin stop    activemq/bin/activemq-admin list

Step6: ActiveMQ Web Admin interface

http://localhost:8161/admin/

Here you can monitor your current status of queues, topics, connections etc. You can also browse,
delete, add data according to requirement.

Step7:  DONE