First, I am not the dev here so grain of salt if I'm overlooking some obvious feature of AMQ, but am looking for guidance/info on the concept of routing/bridging messages around between topics and queues within the broker (not between brokers). I am very familiar with Tibco EMS and they have a "bridge" concept where one can (on the fly, via config file or programmatically) create a "bridge" between a topic or queue. For example I can go in to their VERY easy to use console admin tool and do a "create bridge source=... target=... selector=..." and voila I now have an easy bridge built to move messages around between the source and target. AMQ seems to have nothing of this sort that can be done outside of manually editing the configuration file and restarting the broker (not very cool when you're trying do this in the background while the system is in production).
The question I am interested in answering, is in ActiveMQ is there a way to do this type of things outside of the configuration file? I am familiar with the Camel routing and some of the methods of enterprise patterns in AMQ, however I cannot find any reference to how one can, while the broker is running, create a bridge/route between topics/queues or vice versa without having to edit the configuration file and restart the broker. Basically, what it boils down to for me is that I use these bridges often for both production use (they are static in my Tibco configuration in this case) and for testing/monitoring use (where they are created on demand while the system is running). The latter is where I might create a bridge on the fly to "watch" messages from some application or going to some service/application. Side note (suggestion?) to this, often I want to watch the inbound messages to a queue, but so far in AMQ I have not been able to figure out how to bridge messages from a queue to a topic in a way that doesn't actually consume the messages (in Tibco they are "copied" without impact to the consumers on the queue). I hope this makes sense. There maybe ways to do this I have not found yet (i.e. via coding so that I could build a web app to bridge messages around or something) but I haven't been able to find any reference to this so far in AMQ docs or forums. We leverage this heavily given the complex environment I'm using, and my goal is to replace Tibco EMS with AMQ eventually, but was hoping for some equivalency in this area since it's common in other brokers as well and I might just be missing it. Thanks and Regards, Colin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dynamic-Programmatic-message-bridge-routes--tp19148007p19148007.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
