Hi folks, I'm an IBM WebSphere MQ veteran new to ActiveMQ, I recently started exploring ActiveMQ: great product, really great features... with some aspects just a little bit confusing for senior citizens like me :-) coming from years dwelling in WMQ-land.
My general question here is: are there any resources available for quickly getting experiences WMQers up to speed with ActiveMQ? Moreover I have a few more specific but very newbie level questions, in case someone has the patience tackle them: 1\ In a broker2broker scenario (BRK1 --> BRK2) in the event of a network outage msgs will pile up on the BRK1 1.1\ where will they be internally stored? a hidden queue or something like it? (in WMQ a "special" queue called trasmission queue handles this). 1.2\ how can I inspect how many messages are waiting to be delivered to a particular remote broker? 2\ In a broker2broker scenario (BRK1 --> BRK2) I want to send a message from BRK1 to a queue Q2 residing on the remote broker BRK2, the appropriate network and protocol connectors are already in place 2.1\ Do I have to define any queue/pointers on BRK1 to point to q...@brk2? (in WMQ a "special" queue called remote queue definition handles this) 2.2\ ...if not: does this mean that conceptually all queues in a network of connected brokers belong to the same "namespace" (i.e. Q2 is known to be residing on BRK1 by all brokers in the network) 2.3\ ...if so: what happens to message routing when two queues with the same name are defined on two distinct interconnected brokers? (in WMQ Clusters (good feature, bad name: it's not related to HA) this causes dynamic workload distribution between the two queue instances) 3\ In a broker2broker hub & spoke scenario (BRKH being the hub, BRKS1 BRKS2 BRKS3 being the spokes) I want enroll a new spoke broker BRK4 without having to touch BRKH configuration 3.1\ Is it correct to say that all I have to do is plug a network connector to BRK4 pointing to BRKH? 3.2\ Is it correct to say that setting the network connector attribute duplex=true will enable full two way connectivity between BRK4 and BRKH? I guess this is more than enough for a first post! Thanks in advance and congrats for the product, I hope to have the chance of seriously working with it soon. Cheers, F. PS: ...hey any Hursley lurkers out there? :-)
