There are two ways to configure and administer the Open MQ server product:
The first option is to use the JMS configuration capability built into the GlassFish's administrative infrastructure, such as Admin Console and the
asadmin
CLI utility. This option has the advantage of being simple, because we use the familiar GlassFish administration interfaces. The drawback of this option, however, is that the capability is limited. For example, we cannot create a multi-broker cluster.The second option relies on the tools provided in the Open MQ binary discussed in the previous section, such as
imqbrokerd
andimqadmin
. This option has the advantage of having full control of the Open MQ. The drawback of this approach is that we need to use a completely different set of tools, rather than the GlassFish Server.
In the following sections, we discuss the essential configuration tasks for Open MQ:
Configuring the Open MQ runtime environment
Configuring the physical destinations within...