So ActiveMQ 5.9 is due out from the community any day now! I just did a talk at the local Phoenix JUG about it, and did some live demos of some of the new features. I've posted by slides (below) an...

So I've recently re-kindled my interest in how Apache Camel works. Camel is such a powerful integration tool and is very widely used, but anytime I put it to work, I can't help but think "well, how...

Have you had a chance to take a look at HawtIO yet? If you haven't, it's a new web-based dashboard for managing and monitoring JVM-based services like Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel, JBoss, Infinisp...

So I was planning to give a talk on ActiveMQ at the Phoenix JUG this August, but through no fault of my own, it has been rescheduled for September. Well... actually, I didn't plan and coordinate it...

JBoss A-MQ  is based on Apache ActiveMQ. It's lightweight, has excellent performance, and can be configured to fit a variety of use cases. One of those use cases, and a requirement that you'll find...

Thanks to all that came out to Camel One in Boston this year! I had a great time, my presentation went well, and there were some other great talks! I believe the organizers of Camel One will be pub...

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing Tim Bish's new book Instant Apache ActiveMQ Messaging: Application Development How-To and wanted to share some thoughts. If you're new to messaging, new to ...

For the past couple of years, FuseSource has held CamelOne, an annual conference specifically geared toward the open-source messaging and integration communities especially those at Apache around t...

HawtIO is a new pluggable HTML5 dashboard for monitoring ActiveMQ, Camel, Karaf, Fuse Fabric, Tomcat, and other technologies. Actually, I was completely surprised to see the list of plugins already...

There's usually a steady drip of questions on the mailing list surrounding ActiveMQ's message-priority support as well as good questions about observed behaviors and "what's really supported"? I ho...

So you want to do publish-subscribe with ActiveMQ across distributed topics and be reliable. You can just use durable subscriptions, right? Well, you could, but if you're using clustering with Acti...

I saw a question on the mailing list asking for a simple, stripped-down, version of ActiveMQ. The default version 5.7.0 distribution and all of its runtime dependencies come in at about 44MB. I was...

On January 23rd, I will be giving a live webinar about Camel! I recently completed a DZone RefCard on essential camel components that will be published next week. Go sign up for the webinar at DZon...

Apache Apollo is a next-generation, high-performance, multi-protocol messaging broker built from the ground up to one day be a drop-in replacement of ActiveMQ 5.x. I have blogged about it in the pa...

Apache Apollo is a next-generation, high-performance, multi-protocol messaging broker built from the ground up to one day be a drop-in replacement of ActiveMQ 5.x. I have blogged about it in the pa...

As indicated by some recent mailing list emails and a lot of info returned from Google, ActiveMQ's SystemUsage and particularly the MemoryUsage functionality has left some people confused. I'll try...

I've written previously about ActiveMQ Network Connectors as a way to help describe some of the responsibilities of the classes that are involved with configuring a network of brokers for ActiveMQ....

For most of the clients I've been to, scaling out a JMS messaging layer with ActiveMQ is a priority. There are a couple ways to achieve this, but without a doubt, creating benchmarks and analyzing ...

Recently a customer asked me to look closer at ActiveMQ's implementation of "persistent" messages, how it applies to topics, and what happens in failover scenarios when there are non-durable subscr...

See Part II here Apache Apollo is the next-generation version of ActiveMQ built "from the ground up" on a core designed to be faster and scale better on multi-processor machines. ActiveMQ is one o...