Apache ActiveMQ Adapter

Overview

With the ActiveMQ Adapter, users can access any of the queues of the Active MQ Adapter to send and receive messages. Users can also create a new queue altogether for sending and receiving messages.

Introduction

Apache ActiveMQ picks up messages from a message queue—breaks-up a message in a way that the message does not give away much information of the sender-application to the application that picks up the message. After breaking up, it places the message to the queue to be picked up by any application. The Apache ActiveMQ can then collect the response from the recipient-application, break down the response in a way that reveals the least information about the recipient-application—and, then place the transformed response to the message queue. In doing so, it effectively implements decoupling of the two communicating applications by minimizing the mutual awareness that these two applications should have of one another to be able to exchange messages. Apache ActiveMQ is an open source message broker and an asynchronous messaging system, written in Java with Java Message Service (JMS) client.

The ActiveMQ adapter establishes a connection to the ActiveMQ server from an application, through which users of the application can access any of the queues of the ActiveMQ server to send and receive messages. With this adapter, users can send the following three types of messages to a queue: Text, Byte, and Blob. Messages are received one at a time in the order of their insertion.