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ActiveMQ message broker can be embedded in another product and Geronimo uses this feature to bundle ActiveMQ. Geronimo uses GBean architecture to manage the lifecycle of ActiveMQ. The properties of ActiveMQ are exposed as GBean properties and the life cycle methods start and stop are managed by the kernel.

ActiveMQ is accessed in Geronimo by means of a JCA 1.5 Resource Adapter (RA). Resource Adapter provides connection, transaction, security and work management. By means of Outbound connections of ActiveMQ RA J2EE components in Geronimo can send messages to Queue or Topic in ActiveMQ. Inbound connections of Resource Adapter provide activation of Message Beans.

Integrating JMS Provider with Geronimo

Any third party JMS provider can be integrated with Geronimo by means of a JCA 1.5 ResourceAadapter for JMS. The JMS RA wraps JMS API for creating connections to Queues or Topics and also provides Inbound Communication from a Queue or Topic.

The properties for the Resource Adapter are configured in the ra.xml. These properties are:

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