Brief on how to integrate Mulesoft ESB with Active MQ in simple steps for beginners

1. INTEGRATING MULE AND ACTIVE MQ –
SIMPLE STEPS
By
Gaurav Talwadker

2. Steps – Active MQ
• Install Active MQ from http://activemq.apache.org/download-
archives.html
• Have used Active MQ 5.0 : http://activemq.apache.org/download-
archives.html : “apache-activemq-5.0.0.zip”
• Enable the GUI for Active MQ
• Start Active MQ Server from “bin” folder “activemq.bat”
• In the command line you see:
• JMS connection URL(default port : 61616)
• GUI console URL (ending with admin with default port 8161)
• Go to http://localhost:8161/admin in the browser where you see below
screen.
• Create a queue or Topic
• For this example we will consider queue

3. Steps - Mule
• Build the dataflow within Anypoint studio for publishing message to Active MQ using Simple JMS connector
• Select Active MQ connection as Connector configuration
• Minimum configuration needed for JMS palette is “Connector Config” & Queue Name.
• Add Active MQ “all” jar file which is available along with the installation of Active MQ Server (Available at the
main folder level and not inside lib directory)
• Connector Configurations:
• UserName and Password could be left empty (If going with default setup)
• tcp://localhost:61616 is the default Broker URL
• Run and publish messages to the Active MQ queue after which the message count you can see within Active
MQ broker portal.

4. View/Receive of Messages
• View the count of messages within Active MQ broker portal OR receive
the messages using JMS connector
• Same Queue name and connector configurations