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A is a JMS testing/admin utility specialized for ActiveMQ.

Used to send, browse and put messages on queues.

usage: java -jar a-<version>-with-dependencies.jar [-A] [-a] [-b <arg>]
       [-C <arg>] [-c <arg>] [-e <arg>] [-F <arg>] [-f <arg>] [-g] [-H
       <property=value>] [-I <property=value>] [-i <arg>] [-J <arg>] [-j]
       [-L <property=value>] [-l] [-M <arg>] [-n] [-O] [-o <arg>] [-P
       <arg>] [-p <arg>] [-r <arg>] [-s <arg>] [-t <arg>] [-U <arg>] [-w
       <arg>]
 -A,--amqp                 Set protocol to AMQP. Defaults to OpenWire
 -a,--artemis-core         Set protocol to ActiveMQ Artemis Core. Defaults
                           to OpenWire
 -b,--broker <arg>         URL to broker. defaults to:
                           tcp://localhost:61616
 -C,--copy-queue <arg>     Copy all messages from this to target. Limited
                           by maxBrowsePageSize in broker settings
                           (default 400).
 -c,--count <arg>          A number of messages to browse,get,move or put
                           (put will put the same message <count> times).
                           0 means all messages.
 -e,--encoding <arg>       Encoding of input file data. Default UTF-8
 -F,--jndi-cf-name <arg>   Specify JNDI name for ConnectionFactory.
                           Defaults to connectionFactory. Use with -J
 -f,--find <arg>           Search for messages in queue with this value in
                           payload. Use with browse.
 -g,--get                  Get a message from destination
 -H <property=value>       use value for given property. Can be used
                           several times.
 -I <property=value>       use value for given property. Can be used
                           several times.
 -i,--priority <arg>       sets JMSPriority
 -J,--jndi <arg>           Connect via JNDI. Overrides -b and -A options.
                           Specify context file on classpath
 -j,--jms-headers          Print JMS headers
 -L <property=value>       use value for given property. Can be used
                           several times.
 -l,--list-queues          List queues and topics on broker (OpenWire
                           only)
 -M,--move-queue <arg>     Move all messages from this to target
 -n,--non-persistent       Set message to non persistent.
 -O,--openwire             Set protocol to OpenWire. This is default
                           protocol
 -o,--output <arg>         file to write payload to. If multiple messages,
                           a -1.<ext> will be added to the file.
                           BytesMessage will be written as-is, TextMessage
                           will be written in UTF-8
 -P,--pass <arg>           Password to connect to broker
 -p,--put <arg>            Put a message. Specify data. if starts with @,
                           a file is assumed and loaded
 -r,--reply-to <arg>       Set reply to destination, i.e. queue:reply
 -D,--correlation-id <arg> Set CorrelationID
 -s,--selector <arg>       Browse or get with selector
 -t,--type <arg>           Message type to put, [bytes, text] - defaults
                           to text
 -U,--user <arg>           Username to connect to broker
 -w,--wait <arg>           Time to wait on get operation. Default 50. 0
                           equals infinity

Example1. Put message with payload "foobar" to queue q on local broker:

$a -p "foobar" q

Example2. Put message with payload of file foo.bar to queue q on local broker, also set a property

$a -p "@foo.bar" -Hfoo=bar q

Example3. Browse five messages from queue q.

$a -c 5 q

Example4. Put 100 messages to queue q (for load test etc)

$a -p "foobar" -c 100 q

Example5. Get message from queue and show JMS headers

$a -g -j q

Example6. Put file foo.bar as a byte message on queue q

$a -p "@foo.bar" -t bytes q

Example7. Put file foo.bar as text message on queue q, with encoding EBCDIC CP037 (any charset known on server/JVM should work)

$a -p "@foo.bar" -e CP037 q

#Use AMQP 1.0 A defaults to ActiveMQ default protocol, OpenWire. You can also use AMQP 1.0. In theory, it should work with all AMQP 1.0 compliant brokers. It does not work with older versions of AMQP.

$a -A -b "amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672" -p "foobar" q

#Use Artemis Core Use Artemis core protocol (HornetQ) with the -a option.

$a -a -b "tcp://localhost:61616" -p "foobar" q

Please note that this won't auto deploy the queue in current versions of Artemis. Using OpenWire will autodeploy the queue.

#Use JNDI to connect To connect in a protocol agnostic way, you can specify a JNDI file that points out the JMS provider and settings.

Simply create a jndi.properties file "at classpath". Then link to it jusing the -J (--jndi) option. Please name your ConnectionFactory "connectionFactory". Otherwise, the name has to be supplied using the -F (--jndi-cf-name) option.

$a -J jndi.properties -p "foobar" q

This way, you can even connect to non ActiveMQ/AMQP brokers. You simply need to provide a JNDI config and the client at classpath.

#Build

$mvn install

#Make the jar runnable from *nix-shell as in examples:

1. copy the jar target/a-VERSION-with-dependencies.jar to someplace. i.e. ~/bin/
2. create a file called "a" on your path (~/bin/a or what have you)

#!/bin/sh
java -jar ~/bin/a-1.2.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar "$@"

3. chmod +x a
4. Run a from any place.

#Make the jar runnable in windows console

1. copy the jar target/a-VERSION-with-dependencies.jar to someplace. i.e. c:\bin
2. create a file called "a.bat" on your path, i.e. c:\bin

@echo off
java -jar c:\bin\a-1.2.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar %*

3. Run from any place.

#Use SSL Given you have a truststore and a keystore in JKS format, you can edit your a start script, or run it manually like this. Note that the -Djavax parameters has to come before -jar.

java -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=/Users/petter/client.jks -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=password -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/Users/petter/truststore.jks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=password -jar a-1.2.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar -b ssl://example.org:61618 MY.QUEUE