How to Install Apache ActiveMQ on Mac Mavericks 10.9 OS X Easy Guide

February 10, 2014 | By Lin-Kiu.

ActiveMQ Quick Start for Mac 10.9 Mavericks

The Tutorial shows you How to Install and Getting-Started with Apache ActiveMQ for JMS on Mac 10.9 Mavericks OS X.

As Pre-Requisite for Apache ActiveMQ is the Oracle Java SE JDK 6+ Installation macOS.

Some ActiveMQ Framework Features:

  • Fully JMS Compliant
  • Connectivity (Wide range of Connectivity Options with protocols: Http/s, IP multicast, STOMP, TCP, UDP, XMPP)
  • Pluggable persistence and security
  • Building messaging applications with Java
  • Integration with application servers (Apache Tomcat, Jetty, Apache Geronimo, JBoss)
  • Client APIs (C/C++, .NET,Perl,Python,Ruby and more)
  • Broker clustering (Many ActiveMQ brokers can work together as a network of brokers for scalability purposes)
  • Dramatically simplified administration
Getting-Started with ActiveMQ on Mac 10.9 Mavericks OS X - Featured
  1. Download Latest Apache ActiveMQ for Unix.

    ActiveMQ Unix tar.gz
  2. Double-Click on the tar.gz Archive to Extract.

  3. How to Install Recommended Oracle JDK on macOS

    Install Oracle JDK for Mac
  4. Open Terminal Window
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Getting-Started with ActiveMQ on Mac 10.9 Mavericks OS X - Open Terminal

    In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.

  5. Relocate Apache ActiveMQ Folder.

    sudo mv /tmp/apache-activemq* /opt/
  6. Apache ActiveMQ Quick Start Guide on Unix.

    ActiveMQ Quick Start

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