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Interviews and Podcasts

• ActiveMQ FeatherCast, James Strachan is interviewed on the ActiveMQ project

Webinars, Videos and Screencasts

• Apache ActiveMQ - Connecting Applications everywhere by Rob Davies
• Performance Tuning ActiveMQ webinar by Rob Davies
• FuseSource Webinars - Upcoming and archived webinars on Apache ActiveMQ and other related Apache products.
• FuseSource TV - webcasts about Apache ActiveMQ and related Apache projects.

Articles on ActiveMQ, Messaging and JMS

General Articles

• Connecting to ActiveMQ with Payara Server by Steve Millidge (December, 2015)
• Messaging for Web and Mobile with Apache ActiveMQ by Dejan Bosanac (June, 2013)
• ActiveMQ in Action: Common Problems and Solutions by Bruce Snyder (July, 2011)
• Accessing ActiveMQ on Mac OSX from a Windows VM
• Flex with JMS using BlazeDS, Jetty and ActiveMQ by Kevin McCormack (January, 2009)
• Mutual SSL authentication and LDAP authorisation for ActiveMQ by Christopher Hunt (March, 2009)
• Made of Messages by Matt Biddulph of Dopplr
• Simplified BlazeDS and JMS article by Michael Martin (May, 2008)
• Trying out XA with ActiveMQ by Daniel Meyer (July, 2008)
• Squawk (simple queues using awk) by Andrew Birkett
• Using ActiveMQ and REST by marlet (December, 2007)
• Apache ActiveMQ and Perl (September, 2007)
• Publish-Subscribe with ActiveMQ and NMS
• ActiveMQ Master/Slave Setup
• GlassFish and ActiveMQ by Ramesh Parthasarathy (March, 2007)
• Asynchronous calls and callbacks with Lingo and ActiveMQ by Sanjiv Jivan (May, 2006)
• Magic with JMS, MDBs, and ActiveMQ in Geronimo by Sing Li (July, 2005)
• Implementing Request-Response with ActiveMQ and NMS by Mark
• Understanding Memory Usage by Christian Posta gives an overview and dive into the memory usage of the broker.

ActiveMQ Maintenance and Monitoring

• Running ActiveMQ and hawtio in Standalone Mode by Bennet Schulz (July, 2016)
• Management and monitoring ActiveMQ using hawtio (how to install hawtio out of  the box in ActiveMQ) by Dejan Bosanac (April 2014)
• Monitoring ActiveMQ from Nagios by Cezary Morga
• Use JConsole with ActiveMQ for a quick JMS test client by Rod Biresch (January 2008)
• Integrating ActiveMQ Web Console by Dejan Bosanac (June 2007)
• Hermes Message Stores with ActiveMQ demo by Colin Crist

ActiveMQ and Databases

• High Availability ActiveMQ using MySQL and Ruby by Craig R Webster (December 2008)
• Setting up a PostgreSQL database for ActiveMQ by Adrian Trenaman (September 2008)
• Configure ActiveMQ with MySQL By Shahram Javey (June 2007)

ActiveMQ and Spring

• Spring JMS Examples with ActiveMQ by Bruce Snyder (June 2011)
• Tuning JMS Message Consumption In Spring by Bruce Snyder (May 2010)
• Synchronous Request Response with ActiveMQ and Spring by CodeDependents (March 2010)
• Using Spring to Receive JMS Messages by Bruce Snyder (February 2010)
• Using Spring to Send JMS Messages by Bruce Snyder (February 2010)
• Efficient Lightweight JMS with Spring and ActiveMQ by CodeDependents (Octover 2009)
• ActiveMQ Message Consumer in Spring by Saveen Kumar (October 2008)
• Message-Driven Architectures at The Spring Experience by Keith Donald (September 2007)

ActiveMQ with JRuby/Ruby, Rails and/or Stomp

• JRuby JMS as a replacement for ActiveMessaging
• JMS with JRuby and ActiveMQ
• First Steps on Ruby/STOMP and ActiveMQ by jerome moliere
• Asynchronous Messaging with Rails by Shane Harvie
• Integrating Rails and ActiveMQ with ActiveMessaging/REST by (not) Dennis Byrne
• Asynchronous Messaging using Rails
• Introduction to ActiveMessaging, using Rails with ActiveMQ or Stomp by Andrew Kuklewicz
• Flex, Rails, ActiveMQ and Stomp by Flex On Rails
• ActiveMQ stomp end to end test for nagios by Benjamin Smith
• How to Create a Stomp-Driven Application in JavaScript Using Apache ActiveMQ as a Message Broker by Kaazing
• Scalable Real-Time Web Architecture, Part 1: Stomp, Comet, and Message Queues by Michael Carter

ActiveMQ and .NET

• Messaging with .NET and ActiveMQ by Re.Mark
• Using .Net and ActiveMQ by Re.Mark

Message Broker Comparison

• RabbitMQ vs Apache ActiveMQ vs Apache qpid by Bhavin Turakhia (May, 2010)
• Python messaging: ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ by Night Tale
• Multicasting, Messaging, ActiveMQ vs. MSMQ? by stackoverflow.com
• JMS Performance Comparison by www.fiarano.com
• How does ActiveMQ compare to JBossMQ
• Why use ActiveMQ over JBossMQ?
• Thread: ActiveMQ vs Websphere MQ
• How does ActiveMQ compare to Mule?
• HornetQ 2.0GA vs ActiveMQ 5.3 – feature by feature comparison by www.roklee.com
• Performance and scalability: Analysis and comparison of ActiveMQ, Websphere MQ and SonicMQ
• ActiveMQ vs. Camel vs. Qpid

ActiveMQ tooling and scripts

• Bash-MQ - a bash/awk producer/consumer for activemq or any STOMP compatible MQ

Books and Reference Guides

• Beside these extract of interviews, articles and videos there are also some books available. Take a look at the Books page.

Additional Resources

• Many of the Commercial Providers listed on the Support page provide additional examples, articles, tutorials, documentation, etc...

ActiveMQ bloggers

• Rob Davies
• Hiram Chirino
• Gary Tully
• Dejan Bosanac
• Bruce Snyder
• Christian Posta