ActiveMQ in Action - About this book

• Four parts
• Part 1 provides an introduction to ActiveMQ, a high-level overview of JMS, and a brief discussion of the examples used throughout the book.
• Part 2 focuses on the three standard components in ActiveMQ including connectivity into the message broker, message persistence, and message broker security.
• Part 3 is using ActiveMQ to build application using technologies such as the Spring Framework, leading open source application servers, and numerous applications beyond just Java.
• Part 4 discusses advanced features in ActiveMQ such as high availability, scalability, many advanced broker and client features, performance tuning, and administration of ActiveMQ.

• Part 1
• Chapter 1, Introduces ActiveMQ at a high level and discusses why and when to use ActiveMQ.
• Chapter 2, Introduces enterprise messaging, message-oriented middleware (MOM) and the JMS specification.
• Chapter 3, Introduces the examples to be used throughout ActiveMQ in Action.
• Part 2
• Chapter 4, Covers all the connectivity options for ActiveMQ.
• URIs
• The transport connectors
• Client to broker
• Broker to Broker
• TCP
• NIO
• STOMIP
• failover
• SSL
• HTTP/S
• Chapter 5, Discusses message persistence in ActiveMQ
• For Queue
• For Topics
• Four styles of message stores
• Message caching
• Chapter 6, Introduces and elaborates on security in ActiveMQ.
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Certificate-based security
• How to create a custom security plug-in
• Part 3
• Chapter 7, Deals with creating Java applications using ActiveMQ
• Chapter 8, Is all about integrating ActiveMQ with some popular open source application servers.
• Tomcat
• Jetty
• Geronimo
• JBoss
• client-side JNDI support
• Chapter 9, Discusses messaging with ActiveMQ using languages other than Java
• Part 4
• Chapter 10, Discusses concepts around deploying ActiveMQ for production systems.
• HA
• Scalability
• Chapter 11, Presents advanced features provided by ActiveMQ
• Wildcards and composite destinations
• Advisory messages
• Virtual topics
• ActiveMQ plugins
• Message routing with Apache Camel
• Chapter 12, Covers advanced ActiveMQ client features
• Exclusive consumers
• Message groups
• ActiveMQ streams
• Large objects
• Failover transport
• Message scheduling
• Chapter 13, Deals with performance tuning
• Persistent versus non-persistent messages
• Transactions
• Embedded brokers
• Tuning the wire level protocol
• Tuning the TCP transport
• Optimizations for message producers and message consumers.
• Chapter 14, Finishes up by discussing the administration and monitoring of ActiveMQ.
• JMX
• JConsole
• Command-line tools
• XMPP
• JConsole
• Web console
• Broker- and client-level logging.