One of the changes in release 5.1 is this Improvement http://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-545 but I can't figure out how it's supposed to be specified.
In every case the broker fails to start. Here's an excerpt from the exception: UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 'forwardingBridge#949f69' defined in class path resource [activemq.xml]: Unsatisfied dependency expressed through constructor argument with index 0 of type[org.apache.activemq.transport.Transport]: Could not convert constructor argument value of type[java.lang.String] to required type [org.apache.activemq.transport.Transport]: Failed to convert value of type [java.lang.String] to required type[org.apache.activemq.transport.Transport]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:Cannot convert value of type [java.lang.String] to required type [org.apache.activemq.transport.Transport]: no matching editors or conversion strategy found Here's the specification I used: <forwardingBridge localBroker="vm://localhost" remoteBroker="static://(tcp://174.210.4.10:61616)"/> I hope I'm missing something obvious. Thanks.