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Setting JAVA environment

You must make the JDK 1.5 available available by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable and adding the JAVA_HOME/bin directory to your PATH.

You should use JDK 1.6, or at least a version later than 1.5_15.

For example, if you have installed the JDK in /home/jdk1.5 6 then:
JAVA_HOME should be set to /home/jdk1.56
PATH should include /home/jdk1.56/bin

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The Qpid scripts set the classpath and other flags required for the broker to run.

Configuring Persistence

We ship two example configuration files with the Java broker:

persistent_confg.xml - when you want to use any persistent messages with the Qpid broker (currently with BDB)
transient_config.xml - for transient messaging only

You can simply use one of these config files to get started, using the -c option to specify.

Please visit our 3rd Party Libraries page to get more generic information on how to set up your chosen persistence implementation for Qpid.

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