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Java Message Service Review by Chris in Issaquah
Useful for learning JMS client programming, but NOT ActiveMQ configuration
If you already have a JMS server operational, and someone who understands how to configure that JMS server, then this is a useful book. Appendix D - Installing and Configuring ActiveMQ - is too short and incomplete to be useful. It assumes that the server is installed on the same machine as the client, and leaves out too many details.
A lot of the problem is ActiveMQ - an open source Java project ( [...] ). The documentation for ActiveMQ is scattered all over their website, and the configuration appears to have countless options to choose from.
The book and sample code all seemed a bit rushed. The sample code included a number of hidden MAC OS/X files, probably there by accident.
But there is not a lot of material about either JMS or ActiveMQ, so if you really need to get going with these, this book may be your only option. And as a book about the the theory of messaging system, it is not bad.