Securing connections

Authentication

Client authentication

Add a snippet like below to the <broker> section of the activemq.xml configuration file. Note that ActiveMQ provides sophisticated authentication features for 'real world' usages.

Server side

<plugins>
  <simpleAuthenticationPlugin anonymousAccessAllowed="false">
    <users>
        <authenticationUser username="system" password="manager"  groups="users,admins"/>
        <authenticationUser username="user" password="password"   groups="users"/>
        <authenticationUser username="myusername" password="mypassword"   groups="guests"/>
    </users>
  </simpleAuthenticationPlugin>
</plugins>

On the client site define connection.username and connection.password in the scripts or in conf.xml:

Client side, XML config

  <parameter name="connection.username" value="myusername"/>
  <parameter name="connection.password" value="mypassword"/>

Client side, in XQuery

let $jmsConfiguration :=
    map {
        "java.naming.factory.initial" 
            := "org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory",
        "java.naming.provider.url" := "tcp://localhost:61616",
        "destination" := "dynamicQueues/eXistdb-messaging-demo",
        "connection-factory" := "ConnectionFactory",
        "connection.username" := "myusername",
        "connection.password" := "mypassword"
    }

Secure connection with SSL

On the ActiveMQ website there is documentation how to secure connections between ActiveMQ clients and a ActiveMQ broker.