I was looking at http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-performance-module-users-manual.html to see how well (or poorly) the http transport was over the tcp transport and I've run into some issues just following the instructions.
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/sandbox/activemq-perftest/ cd activemq-perftest mvn activemq-perf:broker -Durl=broker:tcp://localhost:61616 <snip> [INFO] Scanning for projects... [ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] The project org.apache.activemq:activemq-perftest:5.2-SNAPSHOT (/Users/jason/ws/reference/activemq-perftest/pom.xml) has 1 error [ERROR] Non-resolvable parent POM: Could not find artifact org.apache.activemq:activemq-parent:pom:5.2-SNAPSHOT and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM @ line 22, column 13 -> [Help 2] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException [ERROR] [Help 2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/UnresolvableModelException </snip> If I change the version to 5.5.1: <snip> Index: pom.xml =================================================================== --- pom.xml (revision 1199413) +++ pom.xml (working copy) @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ <parent> <artifactId>activemq-parent</artifactId> <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId> - <version>5.2-SNAPSHOT</version> + <version>5.5.1</version> </parent> <artifactId>activemq-perftest</artifactId> </snip> mvn activemq-perf:broker -Durl=broker:tcp://localhost:61616 <snip> [INFO] Scanning for projects... [WARNING] [WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for org.apache.activemq:activemq-perftest:jar:5.5.1 [WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.activemq.tooling:maven-activemq-perf-plugin is missing. @ line 35, column 21 [WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.activemq.tooling:maven-activemq-memtest-plugin is missing. @ line 39, column 21 [WARNING] [WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten the stability of your build. [WARNING] [WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support building such malformed projects. [WARNING] [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building ActiveMQ :: Performance Test 5.5.1 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-activemq-perf-plugin:5.5.1:broker (default-cli) @ activemq-perftest --- Java Runtime: Apple Inc. 1.6.0_26 /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home Heap sizes: current=83008k free=60712k max=517760k JVM args: -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Dclassworlds.conf=/Users/jason/tools/maven/maven3/bin/m2.conf -Dmaven.home=/Users/jason/tools/maven/maven3 ACTIVEMQ_HOME: /Users/jason/.m2/repository/org/apache/activemq/activemq-console ACTIVEMQ_BASE: /Users/jason/.m2/repository/org/apache/activemq/activemq-console Loading message broker from: broker:tcp://localhost:61616 SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder". SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details. Failed to execute main task. Reason: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder </snip> So I configured logback & upgraded slf4j: <snip> Index: pom.xml =================================================================== --- pom.xml (revision 1199413) +++ pom.xml (working copy) @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ <parent> <artifactId>activemq-parent</artifactId> <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId> - <version>5.2-SNAPSHOT</version> + <version>5.5.1</version> </parent> <artifactId>activemq-perftest</artifactId> @@ -35,6 +35,18 @@ <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.activemq.tooling</groupId> <artifactId>maven-activemq-perf-plugin</artifactId> + <dependencies> + <dependency> + <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> + <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> + <version>1.6.2</version> + </dependency> + <dependency> + <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId> + <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId> + <version>1.0.0</version> + </dependency> + </dependencies> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.activemq.tooling</groupId> </snip> ... and now it seems to function. --jason