How to connect WSO2 ESB to Apache ActiveMQ using simple authentication

There are different types of pluggable authentication mechanisms provided by Apache ActiveMQ message broker. One of the quickest and easiest mechanisms is to use simple authentication. As the name implies, it is as simple as adding authentication details to ACTIVEMQ_HOME/conf/activemq-security.xml


 <plugins>
        <!-- Configure authentication; Username, passwords and groups -->
        <simpleAuthenticationPlugin>
            <users>
                <authenticationUser username="system" password="${activemq.password}"
                    groups="users,admins"/>
                <authenticationUser username="user" password="${guest.password}"
                    groups="users"/>
                <authenticationUser username="guest" password="${guest.password}" groups="guests"/>
            </users>
        </simpleAuthenticationPlugin>


In this simple configuration, passwords of each user is defined in ACTIVEMQ_HOME/apache-activemq-5.7.0/conf/credential.properties file.


You can find more details about ActiveMQ simple authentication plugin in this blog.

Suppose, you have started Apache ActiveMQ with simple authentication. Then, any consumer of the destinations defined in your ActiveMQ broker should connect using the credentials defined under simple authentication plugin.

If WSO2 ESB needs to connect to ActiveMQ configured with simple authentication, we can simply update the broker configuration details in ESB_HOME/repository/conf/axis2/axis2.xml as shown below.

 <transportReceiver name="jms" class="org.apache.axis2.transport.jms.JMSListener">
        <parameter name="myTopicConnectionFactory" locked="false">
        	<parameter name="java.naming.factory.initial" locked="false">org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory</parameter>
        	<parameter name="java.naming.provider.url" locked="false">tcp://localhost:61616</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.UserName">system</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.Password">manager</parameter>
         	<parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName" locked="false">TopicConnectionFactory</parameter>
		    <parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryType" locked="false">topic</parameter>
        </parameter>

        <parameter name="myQueueConnectionFactory" locked="false">
        	<parameter name="java.naming.factory.initial" locked="false">org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory</parameter>
        	<parameter name="java.naming.provider.url" locked="false">tcp://localhost:61616</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.UserName">system</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.Password">manager</parameter>
        	<parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName" locked="false">QueueConnectionFactory</parameter>
		    <parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryType" locked="false">queue</parameter>
        </parameter>

        <parameter name="default" locked="false">
        	<parameter name="java.naming.factory.initial" locked="false">org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory</parameter>
        	<parameter name="java.naming.provider.url" locked="false">tcp://localhost:61616</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.UserName">system</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.Password">manager</parameter>
        	<parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName" locked="false">QueueConnectionFactory</parameter>
		    <parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryType" locked="false">queue</parameter>
        </parameter>
    </transportReceiver>

Note that highlighted parameters (transport.jms.UserName and transport.jms.Password) which are used to connect to the broker using simple authentication.

The above configuration can be used to connect any Apache Axis2 based server (Apache Axis2, WSO2 Application Server etc..) to ActiveMQ using simple authentication.

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