Maybe you should take a look at "ActiveMQ in Action", which explains all basic concepts in details http://www.manning.com/snyder/
Cheers -- Dejan Bosanac ----------------- FuseSource - The experts in open source integration and messaging. Email: dej...@fusesource.com Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/dejanb ActiveMQ in Action - http://www.manning.com/snyder/ Blog - http://www.nighttale.net On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:25 AM, pdp11 <pradeep.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi , > > I am new to ActiveMQ but not to JMS. I have worked with JMS extensively with > 'application servers' like WebLogic and JBoss. > > I am finding the terminology in the documentation confusing because of its > non-JMS nature. Specifically, I have a few queries : > > 1. What is this whole business of Connectors( is it like connectors in > Tomcat?) and Connection URI? > 2. What is this JMS broker (is it same as JMS server in WebLogic?)? > 3. How do I administratively (not programmatically but through some console > or XML files) set up and configure destinations and connection factories? > 4. In so many examples I find that ActiveMQ-specific API is being used for > connecting and setting up. Isn't it a 'bad thing' for a JMS compliant server > to do? > > 5. Most importantly, can somebody point me to some documentation which > explains the basic terminology and concepts specific to ActiveMQ. I > encountered many dos but they describe 'basic messaging terminology' not > ActiveMq architecture/concepts. > > Regards > -Pdp > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Help-needed-on-ActiveMQ-concepts-and-architecture-tp3162974p3162974.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >