Page History

...

Qpid currently requires jdk 1.5 to be available. See later section for details.

Downloading & Installing

...

Qpid

The latest build of Qpid Broker and Client packages are available here:

...

Once you have downloaded the package then unpack it into a directory i.e. c:/brokerqpid

Once unpacked, the package will be installed in a directory with a release label (i.e. qpid-0.9) and the directories underneath should look something like this:

...

qpid-server is a bash script which runs the broker on linux/unix. You should set the environment variable QPID_HOME to point at your install path e.g. C:/brokerqpid/brokerqpid-0.9. This enables the startup script to find default config files in the installed etc directory.

...

If running on a unix or linux platform check that the appropriate permissions have been applied to the .sh scripts. If not, then update i.e. chmod 755 *.sh

Client Only Install

Download the client-<build#>.zip or client-<build#>.tar.gz package as appropriate for the platform you are installing on.

Once you have downloaded the package then unpack it into a directory i.e. c:/qpid-client

Once unpacked, the package will be installed in a directory with a release label (i.e. qpid-0.9) and then under the client directory should look something like this:

...