Enterprise Messaging News (April 2011)

Apache ActiveMQ 5.5 released April 1, 2011 - The Apache ActiveMQ team announced the release of Apache ActiveMQ 5.5.0. This is a maintenance release, bringing together over 130 resolved issues and many new features. Full details and download link can be found in the release page: http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-550-release.html Delphi 6 to XE and Free Pascal applications … Continue reading Enterprise Messaging News (April 2011)

Enterprise Messaging News (February 2011)

GlassFish 3.1 RC2 released February 11 - Build 41 of GlassFish 3.1, which is also the release candidate, integrates Jersey 1.5, Mojarra 2.1.0 Release Candidate 2, Grizzly 1.9.30, EclipseLink 2.2.0 RC3, Weld 1.1.0 final, and JavaDB 10.6.2.1. Just like previous milestones and promoted build, you can get RC 1 from http://download.java.net/glassfish/3.1/promoted/ Open Message Queue (OpenMQ) … Continue reading Enterprise Messaging News (February 2011)

How can I disable DUnit tests programmatically?

For integration tests of Habari ActiveMQ Client libraries, I created a DUnit test suite which runs once for every version of the message broker. Unfortunately, some of the tests always fail because of known bugs in the tested version of the message broker (not the client library). This means the test suites will never complete … Continue reading How can I disable DUnit tests programmatically?

Enterprise Messaging News (November 2010)

Stomp 1.1 Working Group The group for the specification and discussion of the Stomp messaging protocol is working on the next version 1.1 of the Stomp specification. Group members include representatives of popular open source message brokers including Apache ActiveMQ, JBoss HornetQ and Springsource RabbitMQ. The current draft is online at Github. A first experimental … Continue reading Enterprise Messaging News (November 2010)

JMSLogAppender for the Delphi Logging Framework Log4D

For users of Log4D, Habarisoft offers a JMS log appender which can be used to send log messages to a Apache ActiveMQ, JBoss HornetQ or OpenMQ open source message broker. Adding a JMS appender is easy and requires only some lines of configuration. To define a JMS log appender with the name Jms1, add these … Continue reading JMSLogAppender for the Delphi Logging Framework Log4D

Delay and Schedule Message Delivery with Apache ActiveMQ and Delphi

Apache ActiveMQ from version 5.4 has a persistent scheduler built into the ActiveMQ message broker. An ActiveMQ client can take advantage of a delayed delivery by using message properties. By setting properties of the JMS message, a client can set the time in milliseconds that a message will wait before being scheduled to be delivered … Continue reading Delay and Schedule Message Delivery with Apache ActiveMQ and Delphi

Query Statistics for Apache ActiveMQ with Delphi

Last October, Rob Davies wrote about the new Statistics plugin which is included in Apache ActiveMQ 5.3 and yesterday I found that it works very well using Delphi and the Habari ActiveMQ Client library (using the Stomp protocol) too. Broker Configuration To configure ActiveMQ to use the statistics plugin just add the following to the … Continue reading Query Statistics for Apache ActiveMQ with Delphi

Receive Apache Log4j messages with Delphi

The Habari ActiveMQ Client library for Delphi and Free Pascal can be used for monitoring of Java(tm) applications which use the popular Apache Log4j logging framework. This screenshot shows the output of a Delphi console application. It listens to a logging topic which receives log messages from an ActiveMQ message broker. The log messages have … Continue reading Receive Apache Log4j messages with Delphi