Automate Active MQ Broker start/stop through maven

While writing integration test most of the time you need to start and stop Active MQ manually which most of you won’t prefer doing by this I mean get things automated . This can be easily done using maven(I have really started loving this tool ) plugin where in before you automated test start maven while start the Active MQ service . Below are the things that the developer had to do in maven

First you need to configure pom with the Maven plugin for Active MQ details

<plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.activemq.tooling</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-activemq-plugin</artifactId>

<version>5.4.0</version>

<configuration>

<configUri>xbean:file:src/main/resources/activemq.xml</configUri>

<fork>true</fork>

<systemProperties>

<property>

<name>javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword</name>

<value>password</value>

</property>

<property>

<name>org.apache.activemq.default.directory.prefix</name>

<value>${project.build.directory}/target/</value>

</property>

</systemProperties>

</configuration>

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>

<artifactId>spring</artifactId>

<version>2.5.5</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>

<artifactId>jetty-xbean</artifactId>

<version>6.1.11</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>

<artifactId>camel-activemq</artifactId>

<version>1.1.0</version>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

</plugin>

Secondly , we will have to create activemq.xml which is the configuration file for Active MQ .

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

  xmlns:amq="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core"

  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd

  http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core

  http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd

  ">

  <broker xmlns="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core" brokerName="localhost" dataDirectory="./data">

  <systemUsage>

            <systemUsage>

                <memoryUsage>

                    <memoryUsage limit="20 mb"/>

                </memoryUsage>

                <storeUsage>

                    <storeUsage limit="1 gb" name="foo"/>

                </storeUsage>

                <tempUsage>

                    <tempUsage limit="100 mb"/>

                </tempUsage>

            </systemUsage>

        </systemUsage>

    <!-- The transport connectors ActiveMQ will listen to -->

    <transportConnectors>

      <transportConnector name="openwire" uri="tcp://0.0.0.0:61616" />

      <transportConnector name="stomp" uri="stomp://0.0.0.0:61613" />

    </transportConnectors>

  </broker>

</beans>

That’s it , once you are done with the above two steps you need to open up your system terminal and run

mvn clean install activemq:run -Dmaven.test.skip=true