Now let”s create a publisher application which will send message to the ActiveMQ Queue.

Create Project

Using eclipse, select File → New → Maven Project. Tick the Create a simple project(skip archetype selection) and click Next.

Enter the details, as shown below−

• groupId − com.tutorialspoint

• artifactId − publisher

• version − 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

• name − ActiveMQ Publisher

Click on Finish button and a new project will be created.

pom.xml

Now update the content of pom.xml to include dependencies for ActiveMQ.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
   https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.tutorialspoint.activemq</groupId>
   <artifactId>publisher</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>ActiveMQ Publisher</name>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
         <artifactId>geronimo-jms_1.1_spec</artifactId>
         <version>1.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.qpid</groupId>
         <artifactId>qpid-jms-client</artifactId>
         <version>0.40.0</version>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
      <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <configuration>
               <source>1.6</source>
               <target>1.6</target>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.fusesource.mvnplugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-uberize-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.14</version>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <phase>package</phase>
                  <goals><goal>uberize</goal></goals>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>  
</project>

Now create a Publisher class which will send message to the ActiveMQ topic to broadcast it to all the subscribers.

package com.tutorialspoint.activemq;

import java.io.Console;
import java.util.Scanner;

import javax.jms.Connection;
import javax.jms.Destination;
import javax.jms.MessageProducer;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;

import org.apache.qpid.jms.JmsConnectionFactory;

public class Publisher {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      // Create a connection to ActiveMQ JMS broker using AMQP protocol
      JmsConnectionFactory factory = new JmsConnectionFactory("amqp://localhost:5672");
      Connection connection = factory.createConnection("admin", "password");
      connection.start();

      // Create a session
      Session session = connection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);

      // Create a topic
      Destination destination = session.createTopic("MyFirstTopic");

      // Create a publisher specific to topic
      MessageProducer publisher = session.createProducer(destination);

      Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
      String response;
      do {
         System.out.println("Enter message: ");
         response = input.nextLine();
         // Create a message object
         TextMessage msg = session.createTextMessage(response);

         // Send the message to the topic
         publisher.send(msg);

      } while (!response.equalsIgnoreCase("Quit"));
      input.close();

      // Close the connection
      connection.close();
   }
}

Producer class creates a connection, starts the session, creates a producer and then asks user to enter message. If user enters quit then application terminates else it will send the message to the topic.

We”ll run this application in ActiveMQ – Test Application chapter.