and I am hoping someone here can make that possible. I work in a group that uses Perl for a large, distributed system. I came upon ActiveMQ while looking to replace our existing Messaging system. I was awed by the sheer number of features. But then I realized something.
It just doesn't work. Being able to monitor the queue via XMPP (although the default configuration doesn't work, even when you spend 4 hours trying to set it up, because there is no default user/pass to use), message groups, STOMP support, or having a nice pretty web-app to interact with is nice - but I need the basic features to work. I cannot monitor ActiveMQ. If I add 5 million messages to a queue, and restart ActiveMQ, upon startup it reports 0 enqueued messages. This is completely unacceptable. How am I supposed to reliably report on message counts? I need to be able to work with large data sets. I may need to add 10 million messages to a queue - I have an enterprise database server and I can throw as much ram at the problem as neccessary - dont just fall on your face. I can't control unexpected outages, I can't control outside clients, and theres no reason that when my queue gets to 300,000 messages it is 1/10 the performance of when it has 10,000. There are numerous other problems that I just can't seem to get past (HA is provided but there is no way to sync up a master/slave if one or the other fails - I have to do it by hand. right....). I see the multitude of features and the name Apache on the front I and I think this product is production ready. I am beginning to believe I am wrong. I realize I am not using the 'Standard' setup - using STOMP instead of OpenWire - and that other variables most likely contribute to my problems (it seems like many people don't use persistent messaging, which is what I am after). I realize ActiveMQ and it's developers have other things to do than to please me. I really want to use this product. But if I can't monitor it, if performance is sporadic, and no one seems to care - I just don't know how. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/I-Really-Want-to-use-ActiveMQ-tp14960064s2354p14960064.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
