ESB as a JMS Consumer

This section describes how to configure WSO2 ESB to listen to a JMS Queue.

The following example shows the configuration of WSO2 ESB to listen to a JMS queue, consume messages, and send them to a HTTP back-end service.      

1. Configure WSO2 ESB with Apache ActiveMQ and set up the JMS listener. For instructions, see Configure with ActiveMQ.
2. Start the Apache ActiveMQ server by executing the following command:
   ./activemq console
3. Start the WSO2 ESB server by executing the following command:
   ./wso2server.sh

4. Create a proxy service with the following configuration.To create a proxy service using ESB Tooling, see Working with Proxy Services via ESB Tooling.

   <proxy xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse" name="JMStoHTTPStockQuoteProxy" transports="jms">
          <target>
              <inSequence>
                  <property action="set" name="OUT_ONLY" value="true"/>
              </inSequence>
              <endpoint>
                  <address uri="http://localhost:9000/services/SimpleStockQuoteService"/>
              </endpoint>
              <outSequence>
                  <send/>
              </outSequence>
          </target>
   </proxy>

5. To test this you will need an HTTP back-end service. Deploy the SimpleStockQuoteService and start the Axis2 server. 

6. Place a message into the Apache ActiveMQ queue by executing the following command from <ESB_HOME>/samples/axis2Client folder.

   ant stockquote -Dmode=placeorder -Dtrpurl="jms:/JMStoHTTPStockQuoteProxy?transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName=QueueConnectionFactory&java.naming.factory.initial=org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory&java.naming.provider.url=tcp://localhost:61616&transport.jms.ContentTypeProperty=Content-Type&transport.jms.DestinationType=queue"

You can make the proxy service a JMS listener by setting its transport as jms. Once the JMS transport is enabled for a proxy service, ESB will start listening on a JMS queue with the same name as the proxy service. In the sample code above,  ESB listens to a JMS queue named JMStoHTTPStockQuoteProxy. To make the proxy service listen to a different JMS queue, define the transport.jms.Destination parameter with the name of the destination queue.

Two-way HTTP Back-end Call

In addition to one-way invocations, WSO2 ESB proxy service can listen to the queue, pick up a message and do a two-way HTTP call as well. This is done when the client specifies a replyDestination element when placing a request message to a JMS queue. It allows the response to be delivered to the replyDestination queue specified by the client. The scenario is depicted in the diagram below.

<proxy xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse"
       name="Proxy1"
       transports="jms"
       startOnLoad="true"
       trace="disable">
   <description/>
   <target> 
      <inSequence>
         <send>
            <endpoint>
               <address uri="http://localhost:9765/services/t/superqa.com/Axis2Service"/>
            </endpoint>
         </send>
      </inSequence>
      <outSequence>
         <send/>
      </outSequence>
   </target>
   <parameter name="transport.jms.ContentType">
      <rules>
         <jmsProperty>contentType</jmsProperty>
         <default>text/xml</default>
      </rules>
   </parameter>
</proxy>

Defining Content Type of Incoming JMS Messages

By default, WSO2 ESB considers all messages consumed from a queue as a SOAP message. To consider messages consumed from a queue as a different format, define the transport.jms.ContentType parameter with the respective content type as a proxy service parameter. The sample code below
 
To demonstrate this, we have modified the above configuration as follows to connect to MyJMSQueue queue and read messages as POX messages.
 

 <proxy xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse" name="JMStoHTTPStockQuoteProxy" transports="jms">
       <target>
           <inSequence>
               <property action="set" name="OUT_ONLY" value="true"/>
               <send>
                   <endpoint>
                       <address uri="http://localhost:9000/services/SimpleStockQuoteService"/>
                   </endpoint>
               </send>
           </inSequence>
           <outSequence>
               <send/>
           </outSequence>
       </target>
       <parameter name="transport.jms.ContentType">
           <rules>
               <jmsProperty>contentType</jmsProperty>
               <default>application/xml</default>
           </rules>
       </parameter>
       <parameter name="transport.jms.Destination">MyJMSQueue</parameter>
   </proxy>