On Mar 1, 2009, at 11:09 PM, Ivan wrote:
That activemq webapp is cool, but I knew that JMS Resource portlet
has some same functions with the activemq-webconsole, such as
browser the queue and send messages.
I'd forgotten we had that functionality in the JMS Resource portlet.
I think there is some difference between the views, however. The JMS
Resource portlet shows info about the destinations that happen to be
defined by resource adapters deployed on this server, whether or not
any messages have ever been sent to them. The ActiveMQ web console on
the other hand shows the destinations in the local broker, whether or
not they are defined by resource adapters on this server (they could
be from remote connections). Furthermore, starting with a new broker,
the ActiveMQ web console doesn't show the destinations defined on the
server until you actually send messages to them. The web console also
gives you atom and rss feeds of the actual messages.
I wonder what is propose in the future, shall we replace it with
activemq-webconsole? and if we integrate it in the admin-console, do
we need to get the updates from activemq periodically.
I don't know what we should do :-) I'd like to have both functions
available in the admin console, but have really no idea how hard it
would be to turn the web console into portlets and keep it up to
date. If we can get a portlet app hosted at activemq we can probably
just install it in our portal.
thanks
david jencks
Thanks !
2009/3/2 David Jencks <[email protected]>
I finally spent a bit of time and got the activemq web console
running in geronimo against the embedded broker. This was fairly
easy, I slimmed down the amq war by using g. dependencies instead of
WEB-INF/lib, and use the inVM option.
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4560
In order to get this to work (although for reasons that are not
entirely clear to me) I had to change geronimo to use the platform
mbean server instead of creating one for itself. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4559
I haven't found any problems with this yet.
One potential concern is that jconsole can attach to a local vm
without any apparent security. However IIUC this is only on the
local machine and with some shared filesystem permission (???). So
I'm inclined to think this in not generally a security problem but
would certainly like other opinions.
Future work:
1. Right now there's no security at all. We need to include our own
web.xml with security constraints and change the plans to use the
geronimo-admin security realm.
2. It would be great to make this a portlet app and run it in the
admin console. I think the portlet app should be at activemq.
How to try it out:
cd plugins/activemq
mvn clean install -Pit
./activemq-server/target/activemq-server-2.2-SNAPSHOT/bin/gsh
geronimo/start-server
In your browser go to http://localhost:8080/activemq-console/
Try sending a message and looking at it using the atom feed :-)
thanks
david jencks
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Ivan
