Part 1 An introduction to messaging and ActiveMQ

Chapter 1 Introduction to Apache ActiveMQ: ActiveMQ features; Using ActiveMQ: why and when?; Getting started with ActiveMQ Running your first examples with ActiveMQ; Summary
Chapter 2 Understanding message-oriented middleware and JMS: Introduction to enterprise messaging; What’s message-oriented middleware?; What’s the Java Message Service?; The JMS specification; Using the JMS APIs to create JMS applications; Summary
Chapter 3 The ActiveMQ in Action examples: Downloading Maven and compiling the examples; Use case one: the stock portfolio example; Use case two: the job queue example; Summary

Part 2 Configuring standard ActiveMQ components

Chapter 4 Connecting to ActiveMQ: Understanding connector URIs; Transport connectors; Connecting to ActiveMQ over the network; Connecting to ActiveMQ inside the virtual machine (VM connector); Network connectors; Summary
Chapter 5 ActiveMQ message storage: How are messages stored by ActiveMQ?; The KahaDB message store; The AMQ message store; The JDBC message store; The memory message store; Caching messages in the broker for consumers; Summary
Chapter 6 Securing ActiveMQ: Authentication; Authorization; Building a custom security plug-in; Certificate-based security; Summary

Chapter 7 Creating Java applications with ActiveMQ: Embedding ActiveMQ using Java; Embedding ActiveMQ using Spring; Implementing request/reply with JMS; Writing JMS clients using Spring; Summary
Chapter 8 Integrating ActiveMQ with application servers: The sample web application; Integrating with Apache Tomcat; Integrating with Jetty; Integrating with Apache Geronimo; Integrating with JBoss; ActiveMQ and JNDI; Summary
Chapter 9 ActiveMQ messaging for other languages: Adapting the stock portfolio example; Messaging for scripting languages; Messaging for compiled languages; Messaging on the web with ActiveMQ; Summary

Chapter 10 Deploying ActiveMQ in the enterprise: Configuring ActiveMQ for high availability; How ActiveMQ passes messages across a network of brokers; Deploying ActiveMQ for large numbers of concurrent applications; Summary
Chapter 11 ActiveMQ broker features in action: Wildcards and composite destinations; Advisory messages; Supercharge JMS topics by going virtual; Retroactive consumers; Message redelivery and dead-letter queues; Extending functionality with interceptor plug-ins; Routing engine with Apache Camel framework; Summary
Chapter 12 Advanced client options: Exclusive consumers; Message groups; ActiveMQ streams; Blob messages; Surviving network or broker failure with the failover protocol; Scheduling messages to be delivered by ActiveMQ in the future; Summary
Chapter 13 Tuning ActiveMQ for performance: General techniques; Optimizing message producers; Optimizing message consumers; Tuning in action; Summary
Chapter 14 Administering and monitoring ActiveMQ: The JMX API and ActiveMQ; Monitoring ActiveMQ with advisory messages; Tools for ActiveMQ administration; Configuring ActiveMQ logging; Summary