If you get an error like this Jun 19, 2006 10:35:27 PM org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService getBroker INFO: ActiveMQ 4.0 JMS Message Broker (localhost) is starting Jun 19, 2006 10:35:27 PM org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService getBroker INFO: For help or more information please see: http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/ java.io.IOException: Failed to create database 'derbydb', see the next exception for details. at org.apache.activemq.util.IOExceptionSupport.create(IOExceptionSupport.java:42) at org.apache.activemq.store.jdbc.TransactionContext.getConnection(TransactionContext.java:58) at org.apache.activemq.store.jdbc.JDBCPersistenceAdapter.createAdapter(JDBCPersistenceAdapter.java:229) at org.apache.activemq.store.jdbc.JDBCPersistenceAdapter.getAdapter(JDBCPersistenceAdapter.java:213) at org.apache.activemq.store.jdbc.JDBCPersistenceAdapter.start(JDBCPersistenceAdapter.java:139) at org.apache.activemq.store.journal.JournalPersistenceAdapter.start(JournalPersistenceAdapter.java:215) at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService.createRegionBroker(BrokerService.java:930) at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService.createBroker(BrokerService.java:888) at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService.getBroker(BrokerService.java:458) at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService.addConnector(BrokerService.java:143) at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService.addConnector(BrokerService.java:133) at com.ic.ntn.message.HelloWorld$HelloWorldBroker.run(HelloWorld.java:92) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Caused by: SQL Exception: Failed to create database 'derbydb', see the next exception for details. at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.newEmbedSQLException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.newEmbedSQLException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.generateCsSQLException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.newSQLException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.createDatabase(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection30.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.jdbc.Driver30.getNewEmbedConnection(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.jdbc.InternalDriver.connect(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDataSource.getConnection(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDataSource.getConnection(Unknown Source) at org.apache.activemq.store.jdbc.TransactionContext.getConnection(TransactionContext.java:54) ... 11 more Then the error is probably that the JDBC driver (Apache Derby by default) could not write to the persistent file area. WorkaroundCreate a directory for the broker to write its files. e.g. in Java code call setDataDirectory File dir = new File("foo"); dir.mkdir(); broker.setDataDirectory(dir); or in XML use <broker dataDirectory="foo">... See |