Part 2. Configuring standard ActiveMQ components

Out of the box, so to speak, using ActiveMQ is straightforward: start it up, send some messages, receive some messages. What you don’t see in such a use case are the details behind ActiveMQ. Understanding these details and how to customize the configuration is a requirement for more advanced situations. Although ActiveMQ provides a vast set of configuration options, understanding a core set of these options is necessary for the most basic of broker configurations.

Part 2 dives into the critical configuration options in ActiveMQ, including connectivity into the broker, message persistence, and security. These three main topics are the first points of configuration that you’ll encounter with ActiveMQ so it’s important that you understand them first.