The VM TransportThe VM transport allows clients to connect to each other inside the VM without the overhead of the network communication. The connection used is not a socket connection but use direct method invocations which enables a high performance embedded messaging system. The first client to use the VM connection will boot an embedded broker. Subsequent connections will attach that the same broker. Once all VM connections to the broker have been closed, the embedded broker will automatically shutdown. Simple Broker Configuration SyntaxThis is the normal syntax for a VM connection. It's simple, but provides only a limited amount of configuration of the embedded broker. vm://brokerName?transportOptions If you want to connect to an already instantiated, embedded broker (e.g. as in case the case of Apache ServiceMix), make sure the brokerName used in the vm://brokerName url matches the brokerName of the already running broker. Transport Options
Example URIvm://broker1?marshal=false&broker.persistent=false Be careful with embedded brokers If you are using the VM transport and wish to explicitly configure an Embedded Broker there is a chance that you could create the JMS connections first before the broker starts up. Currently ActiveMQ will auto-create a broker if you use the VM transport and there is not one already configured. (In 5.2 it is possible to use the waitForStart and create=false options for the connection uri) So to work around this if you are using Spring you may wish to use the depends-on attribute so that your JMS ConnectionFactory depends on the embedded broker to avoid this happening. e.g. <bean id="broker" class="org.apache.activemq.xbean.BrokerFactoryBean">
<property name="config" value="classpath:org/apache/activemq/xbean/activemq.xml" />
<property name="start" value="true" />
</bean>
<bean id="connectionFactory" class="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory" depends-on="broker">
<property name="brokerURL" value="vm://localhost"/>
</bean>
Advanced Broker Configuration SyntaxThis is the advanced syntax for a VM connection. It's allows you configure the broker more extensively using a Broker Configuration URI. vm:(broker:(tcp://localhost)?brokerOptions)?transportOptions Transport Options
There are more options on optimising the use of the VM transport. Example URIvm:(broker:(tcp://localhost:6000)?persistent=false)?marshal=false Configuring an Embedded Broker Using an External Config FileTo start an embedded broker using the vm transport and configure it using an external configuration file (i.e. activemq.xml), use the following URI: vm://localhost?brokerConfig=xbean:activemq.xml |