James,
(James Strachan said:)
So it sounds like you just wanna mostly use ActiveMQ with PHP and Perl right? If so I'd recommend just running the broker via the shell script / windows service / unix service directly; then you don't have to worry about integrating into some app server and messing about with all that JCA stuff.
Not quite - whilst most of our code is in PHP and Perl, the code which takes in more than 33% of our cash flow is moving towards a Java EE based solution. There are various reasons why I've wanted to move this part of the code in this direction, the primary one being that I can suddenly get: security management, persistence management, transactions and other "goodies" for free (so to speak).
DSL