embedded broker in Tomcat 6 available to both local vm and external clients

[Henri Gomez]

Hi to all,

I read carefully the docs about declaring an ActiveMQ in Tomcat :

http://activemq.apache.org/tomcat.html

I need to get ActiveMQ embedded in a webapp and for both in VM clients
but also external clients and want to get the setup in context.xml :

I tried to add in context.xml :

  <Resource name="jms/ConnectionFactory" auth="Container"
type="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory" description="JMS
Connection Factory"
        factory="org.apache.activemq.jndi.JNDIReferenceFactory"
brokerURL="vm://localhost" brokerName="LocalActiveMQBroker"/>


I couldn't see tcp port opend.

  <Resource name="jms/ConnectionFactory" auth="Container"
type="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory" description="JMS
Connection Factory"
        factory="org.apache.activemq.jndi.JNDIReferenceFactory"
brokerURL="tcp://localhost:61616" brokerName="LocalActiveMQBroker"
        useEmbeddedBroker="true" />

No more luck.

How could I get it works ?

With both configuration I could see the broker available by adding in
a StartupServlet :

                try {
                    InitialContext initCtx = new InitialContext();
                    Context envContext = (Context) 
initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
                    ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = (ConnectionFactory)
envContext.lookup("jms/ConnectionFactory");
                    Connection connection = 
connectionFactory.createConnection();
                    Session session = connection.createSession(false,
Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
                    MessageProducer producer = 
session.createProducer((Destination)
envContext.lookup("jms/topic/MyTopic"));

                    Message testMessage = session.createMessage();
                    testMessage.setStringProperty("testKey", "testValue");
                    producer.send(testMessage);
                } catch (NamingException ne) {
                    System.err.println("NamingException: " + ne);
                } catch (JMSException jmse) {
                    System.err.println("NamingException: " + jmse);
                }               

My question is :

How could we get Tomcat 6 start an ActiveMQ in embedded mode with
opened connections to outside clients.

Regards