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Overview of Instant Apache ActiveMQ Messaging Application Development How-to

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
• Learn how to use the JMS API
• Explore advanced messaging features in ActiveMQ
• Useful information on common pitfalls new developers often encounter

How to Enter?

Simply post your expectations from this book in comments section below. You could be one of the 2 lucky participants to win the copy.

DeadLine:

The contest will close on 06/14/2013 . Winners will be contacted by email, so be sure to use your real email address when you comment!

New ActiveMQ Book Published.

Recently finished work on a new book for the beginning ActiveMQ user, "Instant Apache ActiveMQ Messaging Application Development How-to" published by Packt Publishing.  The book is a fast paced walk through as the basic skills needed to work with Apache ActiveMQ.  At 78 pages its a quick read and provides some helpful tips for some of the most common questions asked by those new to working with ActiveMQ.

 Some things that are covered in this book.

• Install and run an ActiveMQ Broker
• Set up a basic application developer environment for ActiveMQ using Apache Maven
• Write basic JMS applications using topics and queue to broadcast events
• Perform Request and Response style operations over JMS
• Write applications that embed ActiveMQ brokers directly into their own JVM
• Utilize ActiveMQ's fault tolerant features to develop robust client applications
• How to delay message sending using ActiveMQ's built in scheduler

The book is available in eBook form from Packt or you can also order a paperback copy on Amazon.

ActiveMQ-CPP v3.7.0 Released

This is a new Major release of ActiveMQ-CPP which contains bug fixes for issues that were found since v3.6.0 was released along with several new features which have been requested by a number of users.

* Added support of Optimized Acknowledge
* Added support for Non-blocking redelivery.
* Removed dependence on the APR-Util library (Still needs the main APR lib).
* Supports priority backups for Failover Transport
* Supports the cluster rebalancing feature.
* Message Audits to filter duplicates on Failover.
* A lot of other little bug fixes and improvements.

Building the project should be a lot simpler now as you only need to have APR v1.3+ installed, this is a big plus for Windows users as building the APR-Util libs on Windows is tricky at best.