Mirth Connect and RabbitMQ - rabbitmq

I'm new to Mirth Connect and was hoping to send and receive messages to/from RabbitMQ. Mirth Connect doesn't natively support this, only JMS. I've tried installing the RabbitMQ JMS client, but get exception RMQJMSException: invalid stream header: 4C616220. I get the impression that even if I succeeded, there still isn't interoperability between JMS clients and AMQP clients.
It looks like I'll have to go down the JavaScript Reader / JavaScript Writer route, which strikes me as very inefficient. Does anyone have experience in connecting to RabbitMQ in such a manner?

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How do I find the connection information of a RabbitMQ server that is bound to a SCDF stream deployed on Tanzu (Pivotal/PCF) environment?

This is a follow-up question of How to implement HTTP request/reply when the response comes from a rabbitMQ reply queue using Spring Integration DSL?.
We were able to build the Spring Integration application and the SCDF stream successfully locally. We could send a http request to the rabbitMQ request queue which was bound to the SCDF stream rabbit source. We could also receive the response back from the rabbitMQ response queue which was bound to the SCDF stream rabbit sink.
We have deployed the SCDF stream into PCF environment which had a binding of an internal rabbitMQ broker. Now we need to specify the spring rabbitMQ connection information in the Spring Integration application properties - currently it's using the default localhost#5762, which is no longer valid. Does anyone know how to get this rabbitMQ configuration properties? We already checked the SCDF stream rabbit source/sink log files but couldn't find the information. I know we probably need to check internally whoever set up the SCDF/rabbitMQ in PCF environment, but so far we haven't heard the answers from them.
Also, it appears we can have a different approach that binds both the SCDF stream and the integration application to a separate rabbitMQ instance (instead of using the existing one bundled with the SCDF configuration). Is it a recommended solution?
Thanks,
It is unclear whether you're using the SCDF tile or the SCDF OSS (via manfest.yml) on PCF.
Suppose you're using the OSS, AFA. In that case, you are providing the right RMQ service-instance configuration (that you pre-created) in the manifest.yml, then SCDF would automatically propagate that RMQ service instance and bind it to the apps it is deploying to your ORG/Space. You don't need to muck around with connection credentials manually.
On the other hand, if you are using the SCDF Tile, the SCDF service broker will auto-create the RMQ SI and automatically bind it to the apps it deploys.
In summary, there's no reason to manually pass the connection credentials or pack them as application properties inside your apps. You can automate all this provided you're configuring all this correctly.

ActiveMQ: Transforming OpenWire and STOMP messages

EDIT2: My issue here was caused by an insufficient understanding of how transport connectors work in ActiveMQ. TL;DR is that ActiveMQ will implicitly "transform" or "relay" messages between your transport connector configurations defined in activemq.xml.
EDIT: Additional info, the STOMP messages received by the Angular application are used for debugging and demo purposes. Hence, simply converting the OpenWire message to a blob of readable text is sufficient.
I'm creating an Angular application (preferably website, avoiding native applications), which objective is to "tap in" by web sockets on an ActiveMQ server and subscribe to OpenWire messages. How do I let ActiveMQ transform OpenWire messages to STOMP messages and send these to any clients (i.e. my Angular application) connected to the ActiveMQ WebSocket connector?
In addtiion, it would be nice-to-have if I could transform STOMP to OpenWire as well.
It must be Angular
Avoiding the use of native applications on the client-side is preferable although not a deal-breaker.
Adding extra processing stress on the ActiveMQ server must be done with caution.
To the best of my knowledge, it is only possible to let Angular "talk directly" with the ActiveMQ server by STOMP messages send by web socket, if I am to avoid using native applications.
I already have an Angular application capable of STOMP communication by web sockets (e.g. something like https://github.com/stomp-js/ng2-stompjs-angular7).
I am missing information on how to configure the ActiveMQ server to transform OpenWire-->STOMP through its transport connectors.
In my understanding, what I am trying to do should be possible. It is noted by other users but not how. E.g. users hint that what I want is possible in ActiveMQ but not Apollo: ActiveMQ to Apollo transition, Openwire to Stomp protocol configuration.
I expect (preferably) the need to use something like an ActiveMQ transformer (e.g. adding transformer to the connector configuration: AMQP & Openwire - Activemq broker and 2 different consumers) or maybe writing an ActiveMQ plugin (http://activemq.apache.org/developing-plugins.html). On ActiveMQ's website, an existing transformer is mentioned (http://activemq.apache.org/stomp.html Message Transformations section):
Currently, ActiveMQ comes with a transformer that can transform XML/JSON text to Java objects
... but no mention of how to use this and I am unsure if I can benefit from this and if this means that there are no transformers for OpenWire-->STOMP or vice versa.
I expect I might have misunderstood some of the concepts, and a "you're going in a wrong direction, do this instead" can work out as a good answer for me. At the time of writing, I expect I will have to create an ActiveMQ plugin using their Message Transformer interface (http://activemq.apache.org/message-transformation.html) although their sub links are 404. I hope to achieve a more simple solution, e.g. an existing OpenWire-->STOMP transformer:
<transportConnector name="openwire" uri="{some-openwire-uri}?transport.transformer=stomp"/>
ActiveMQ will "transform" any Openwire message into a STOMP message and vice versa as needed based on client connections. I an Openwire based JMS client connects and places a message onto a queue and a STOMP based client comes along and subscribes to that queue the message will be converted into a STOMP message to send to that client.
Without knowing more about what issue you are having it is hard to provide more insight than that though. There are some cases where the transformation from Openwire to STOMP might not yield exactly the right thing for you such as a MapMessage or StreamMessage and definitely an ObjectMessage so some care needs to be taken about cross protocol messaging.
You do of course need to add a transport connector for each of the protocols you want to support, Openwire, STOMP, AMQP etc. The clients need something to connect to, then once they connect the broker manages the message transformations amongst subscriptions on Topics and Queues.

Conversion from MQTT to AMQP/STOMP

I'm kind of new to these protocols, and just started exploring Message brokers like Apache Apollo and RabbitMQ.
So my broker receives MQTT messages from a publisher. And I would like to convert it into AMQP (preferably) or STOMP protocol to send to a web server. But I've so far been unable to do so.
I looked into RabbitMQ, and tried enabling the MQTT plugin, but when I do load it, I'm unable to start the server.
I was wondering if anyone can guide me here? Is there an API that can help me? And I'm very confused about RabbitMQ. I've been able to load other plugins easily,like stomp, management utilities etc.
I'm 100% sure it is doable. I am doing it right now with robomq.io broker. One cause could be sometimes bugs in your client library restrict you doing so.
Another thing you should be aware of is that internally, RabbitMQ MQTT adapter is mapped into amq.topic exchange by default, so on your STOMP peer, you should subscribe or send to /topic/yourTopic; on your AMQP peer, bind your queue to amq.topic exchange or publish to that exchange.
Follow this example code and documentation to build your client.
If you can't figure out your server, just get a free trial from robomq.io. It saves you time and money.
The development tool I am using is robomq.io broker, producers in Python (AMQP library: pika, MQTT library: paho, STOMP library: stompest), consumer in Node.js (library: amqplib).
Hope it helps!
Well, I'm not sure if this question should be taken down. But if it has to be I leave it to the discretion of the moderators and the stackOverflow community in general.
btw, I use Ubuntu 14.04.
About the RabbitMQ broker
So Mosquitto was running un the background occupying the port 1883 normally used for MQTT. I could have changed the port for RabbitMQ, but decided against it and tried to kill the Mosquitto process. But for some reason, I could NOT.
For now, my quick fix was removing Mosquitto completely and this freed the port, enabling RabbitMQ to use it.
About the protocols
I've used Paho and the RabbitMQ libraries provided to code out simple programs that can publish and receive messages in AMQP/MQTT via the RabbitMQ broker.
(My Googling needs to be better!)
Still haven't converted one to the other. But that shouldn't be too big a step to achieve.
Still would be nice to know if there's an API or something that can help me achieve the conversion in a very simple manner. Of course, if there's not, I'll figure it out ASAP
Any suggestions/comments are heartily welcome. I'm brand new to all this and could really use advice from all you seasoned pros :)

RabbitMQ, is it possible to publish via one protocol and consume via another?

RabbitMQ supports multiple protocols, AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, ....
When using PHP for example, it's easier to publish using the STOMP library since the PHP AMQP libraries requires compiled C code and is somewhat of a mission to setup if you don't have to.
On the JAVA side, apache camel with AMQP on spring is pretty straight forward.
Is it possible to setup a queue, publish to it via STOMP and then consume via AMQP and then again publish via AMQP and consume via STOMP if the message broker is RabbitMQ?
Yes, this should work, given that you have installed RabbitMQ's STOMP plugin on your RabbitMQ node(s).
The protocol only defines the communication between client and server and has no impact on a message itself.
You should note that using protocols other than AMQP will most likely come along with limitations and/or worse performance.
There also exist native PHP libraries for RabbitMQ that don't require compiling C code. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you which one is the best, because I am a Java guy ;-).

Stomp ActiveMQ questions

I am new to Stomp ActiveMQ. I want to create a login from an android client and I don't know how to use ActiveMq. I\ve installed active mq, configured stomp and run the stompexample.
1. I have an error when running activemq from command line if I add in in the activemq.xml the following line:
<transportConnector name="stomp+nio" uri="stomp+nio://localhost:61612"/>
<transportConnector name="stomp+ssl" uri="stomp+ssl://localhost:61612"/>
Can someone please explain what is with tx1 and tx2? Is there a way to send on the queue a message to a specific client? how?
connection.connect("system", "manager");
connection.begin("tx1");
connection.send("/queue/test", "message1");
connection.send("/queue/test", "message2");
connection.commit("tx1");
connection.subscribe("/queue/test", Subscribe.AckModeValues.CLIENT);
connection.begin("tx2");
StompFrame message = connection.receive();
System.out.println(message.getBody());
connection.ack(message, "tx2");
message = connection.receive();
System.out.println(message.getBody());
connection.ack(message, "tx2");
connection.commit("tx2");
connection.disconnect();
Can someone please tell me how to create an application that sends on a queue a text containing username, password and receives an answer if the register was successful?
You need to configure the transport connectors with different port numbers, they can't both share port 61612. Your configure is create a Stomp NIO connector and a different Stomp SSL Connector.
You can't send messages to a distinct client, you just place them on a Queue and if there is a client subscribed it will get the message, that's the nature of Queue based messaging. The TX1 TX2 stuff is sending the messages within a transaction.
Recommend you take some time to read up of JMS Messaging, the Stomp spec and some other messaging based tutorials.