Setup ActiveMQ Artemis on Windows

Overview

ActiveMQ Artemis is an open-source "next generation" broker from Apache with the performance and feature-set to implement high-performance messaging systems. Artemis is the code-name used for the HornetQ code that was donated to the Apache Foundation.

Pre-requisites:

  • Windows 7 or higher
  • Java 7 or higher

Let us start Artemis setup on Windows machine.

The Next ‘WannaCry’ Is Here (But so, too, Is a Patch)

If you don't want me to infect your Windows OS, install the patch from Microsoft. It really is that easy. I am hungry, though, so maybe you shouldn't...

Since mid-May, Microsoft has been warning Windows admins of a potentially catastrophic vulnerability: Now known as BlueKeep, this "critical" vulnerability exists within the Remote Desktop Protocol used by older Windows operating systems, including 2000, Vista, XP, 7, Server 2003 (including R2), and Server 2008 (including R2).

As the company explained in a security update guide last month: