ActiveMQ startup guide - activemq

I am new to activeMQ. I want to make a simple application in which one EJB3 sends a message to ActiveMQ and its received and retrieved in MessageDrivenBean. There are so many possibilities to do that. And i an quite confused with so many example. Can anyone point to a good link for creating such application. I want to use ActiveMQ5.5.1 and JBoss6.0.0. And what are the known issues with this combination.
Any help will be appreciated.
thanks

you should start with some of the Fuse webinars/tutorials...
http://fusesource.com/enterprise-support/getting-started/
also, here is a guide to integrating AMQ/JBoss...
http://activemq.apache.org/jboss-integration.html

The first chapter to the ActiveMQ in Action book is free and offers a good quick introduction.

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Advice - Redis or RabbitMQ PubSub - Auction service

For a new auction system I am looking for which technology is the best for me.
When there is a new bid, I want to notify the listening users on the auction page. This is something for a pubsub technique, i presume.
First I did take a look at RabbitMQ, and I think this is a good way to build this. But it means I have an extra single point of failure.
So now I am leaning towards Redis PubSub. I know it has disadvantages, because when an user is not listening it won't re-send messages. But that is not a problem. When a user sign in it has all the current bids, and then only want updates. I don't plan to create a chat with a history.
What can you advice? Are there anymore disadvantages to use Redis for this? How about the stability? When a bid occurs, and I want to send the newest price to all listening users, how certain am I everyone gets the message?
Does anyone have experience with this situation?
Thanks
Pro: redis is much simpler than RabbitMQ to set up.
Cons: there is no guarantee of delivery with Redis.
I assume, that by "page" you mean standard HTML page with PHP on backend. If yes, then your main problem is not "should I use Redis or RabbitMQ", because you cannot make direct connection between your user browser and Redis or RabbitMQ.
First you have two answer to yourself, how will you provide updates for the page:
by regular ajax requests asking "is there any new for me"
by using some implementation of websocket
and after selecting answer, you will see that pub/sub mechanism has any use at all in your situation.

How can i delete destination from activemq

How can i delete a queue from activemq using java.Can any one provide any samples regarding this.I have googled it but i didn't find the correct solution.
This SO Thread, and particulary BOdays answer:
ActiveMQ delete queue from java
Points to this blog post by the same author:
http://www.consulting-notes.com/2010/08/monitoring-and-managing-activemq-with.html
which shows how to this using JMX/Java.
Enjoy

How can I get a list of the topics from a ActiveMQ broker?

I found this on ActiveMQ tutorial: http://activemq.apache.org/how-can-i-get-a-list-of-the-topics-and-queues-in-a-broker.html
But I really cannot figure out how to get the topics. Can you give me an example, I mean, programmatically?
The answer depends a bit on what you are looking to do here. ActiveMQ has extensive JMX APIs for monitoring an managing the broker, there's a ton of articles out there on using them to list queues and topics, a quick google search found this one. You can also take advantage of ActiveMQ's Advisory Topics if you don't want to use JMX.

Real-time application newbie - Node.JS + Redis or RabbitMQ -> client/server how?

I am a newbie to real-time application development and am trying to wrap my head around the myriad options out there. I have read as many blog posts, notes and essays out there that people have been kind enough to share. Yet, a simple problem seems unanswered in my tiny brain. I thought a number of other people might have the same issues, so I might as well sign up and post here on SO. Here goes:
I am building a tiny real-time app which is asynchronous chat + another fun feature. I boiled my choices down to the following two options:
LAMP + RabbitMQ
Node.JS + Redis + Pub-Sub
I believe that I get the basics to start learning and building this out. However, my (seriously n00b) questions are:
How do I communicate with the end-user -> Client to/from Server in both of those? Would that be simple Javascript long/infinite polling?
Of the two, which might more efficient to build out and manage from a single Slice (assuming 100 - 1,000 users)?
Should I just build everything out with jQuery in the 'old school' paradigm and then identify which stack might make more sense? Just so that I can get the product fleshed out as a prototype and then 'optimize' it. Or is writing in one over the other more than mere optimization? ( I feel so, but I am not 100% on this personally )
I hope this isn't a crazy question and won't get flamed right away. Would love some constructive feedback, love this community!
Thank you.
Architecturally, both of your choices are the same as storing data in an Oracle database server for another application to retrieve.
Both the RabbitMQ and the Redis solution require your apps to connect to an intermediary server that handles the data communications. Redis is most like Oracle, because it can be used simply as a persistent database with a network API. But RabbitMQ is a little different because the MQ Broker is not really responsible for persisting data. If you configure it right and use the right options when publishing a message, then RabbitMQ will actually persist the data for you but you can't get the data out except as part of the normal message queueing process. In other words, RabbitMQ is for communicating messages and only offers persistence as a way of recovering from network problems or system crashes.
I would suggest using RabbitMQ and whatever programming languages you are already familiar with. Since the M in LAMP is usually interpreted as MySQL, this means that you would either not use MySQL at all, or only use it for long term storage of data, not for the realtime communications.
The RabbitMQ site has a huge amount of documentation about building apps with AMQP. I suggest that after you install RabbitMQ, you read through the docs for rabbitmqctl and then create a vhost to experiment in. That way it is easy to clean up your experiments without resetting everything. I also suggest using only topic exchanges because you can emulate the behavior of direct and fanout exchanges by using wildcards in the routing_key.
Remember, you only publish messages to exchanges, and you only receive messages from queues. The exchange is responsible for pattern matching the message's routing_key to the queue's binding_key to determine which queues should receive a copy of the message. It is worthwhile learning the whole AMQP model even if you only plan to send messages to one queue with the same name as the routing_key.
If you are building your client in the browser, and you want to build a prototype, then you should consider just using XHR today, and then move to something like Kamaloka-js which is a pure Javascript implementation of AMQP (the AMQ Protocol) which is the standard protocol used to communicate to a RabbitMQ message broker. In other words, build it with what you know today, and then speed it up later which something (AMQP) that has a long term future in your toolbox.
Should I just build everything out with jQuery in the 'old school' paradigm and then identify which stack might make more sense? Just so that I can get the product fleshed out as a prototype and then 'optimize' it. Or is writing in one over the other more than mere optimization? ( I feel so, but I am not 100% on this personally )
This is usually called RAD (rapid application design/development) and it is what I would recommend right now. This lets you build the proof of concept that you can use to work off of later to get what you want to happen.
As for how to talk to the clients from the server, and vice versa, have you read at all on websockets?
Given the choice between LAMP or event based programming, for what you're suggesting, I would tell you to go with the event based programming, so nodejs. But that's just one man's opinion.
Well,
LAMP - Apache create new process for every request. RabbitMQ can be useful with many features.
Node.js - Uses single process to handle all request asynchronously with help of event looping. So, no extra overhead process creation like apache.
For asynchronous chat application,
socket.io + Node.js + redis pub-sup is best stack.
I have already implemented real-time notification using above stack.

Exactly how many users can Support Blazeds Messeging service ? for much user support what we need to do(pooling)?

I designed one On line Trading Application, which uses blazeds & jetty,
in that i used AMF-LongPooling as channel, with following parameter,
Here is the problem is Each message is not reaching all the user,who are connected, messages are missing to few users (300 recieving out of 600)...
what we need to do to provided instant messages to all Online. ??
Please help me one?
Your question is too generic, it's not possible to give an answer because it depends on too many things: network, size of the messages, your system architecture etc. My suggestion is to invest heavily in reading BlazeDS developer guide and to turn the debug messages on (there is a lot of useful information displayed by BlazeDS). It would also help to study BlazeDS source code.
In case of AMF-longpolling the request is parked on the server and if too many requests are parked at a time, they will consume all available threads for the server. And the next client won't be able to connect.
In your case I am assuming the message size is not very big. And the solution can be one of the followings:
To increase the number of available threads. For that you can have multiple server instances and distribute your clients over them.
You can make use of LCDS.
You don't get that problem in LCDS as it makes use of NIO end points that don't block the thread. I have come to know that this thread restriction is not a problem with Servlet 3.0 and in that case you can support more clients with blazeds itself. You can check more about it HERE.