WSO2 EI as a JMS Consumer

This section describes how to configure WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (WSO2 EI) to listen to a JMS Queue.

Follow the steps below to configure WSO2 EI to listen to a JMS queue, consume messages, and send them to a HTTP back-end service.

Configure WSO2 EI with Apache ActiveMQ and set up the JMS listener. For instructions, see Configure with ActiveMQ.
Create a proxy service with the following configuration.To create a proxy service using Tooling, see Working with Proxy Services via 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/> </target> </proxy>
To test this you will need an HTTP back-end service. Deploy the SimpleStockQuoteService and start the Axis2 server.
Place a message into the ActiveMQ queue by executing the following command from <EI_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"
WSO2 EI will read the message from the ActiveMQ queue and send it to the back-end service. You will see the following response in the Axis2 Server console:
Fri Dec 16 10:21:11 GST 2016 samples.services.SimpleStockQuoteService :: Accepted order #1 for : 7424 stocks of IBM at $ 156.74347214873563

Two-way HTTP Back-end Call

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

We can have a proxy service similar to the following to simulate a two-way invocation.

<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:9000/services/SimpleStockQuoteService"/>
            </endpoint>
         </send>
      </inSequence>
      <outSequence/>
   </target>
   <parameter name="transport.jms.ContentType">
      <rules>
         <jmsProperty>contentType</jmsProperty>
         <default>text/xml</default>
      </rules>
   </parameter>
</proxy>

Note that for two-way JMS scenarios the OUT_ONLY property is not used.

Use the following command from <EI_HOME>/samples/axis2Client folder. Note how the transport.jms.ReplyDestination element is specified.

ant stockquote -Dsymbol=WSO2 -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&transport.jms.ReplyDestination=ResponseQueue"

You can view the responses from the back-end service in ResponseQueue by accessing the ActiveMQ management console using the URL http://0.0.0.0:8161/admin and using admin as both the username and password.

Defining Content Type of Incoming JMS Messages

By default, WSO2 EI 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.

To demonstrate this, we have modified the above configuration as follows:

 <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/>
       </target>
       <parameter name="transport.jms.ContentType">
           <rules>
               <jmsProperty>contentType</jmsProperty>
               <default>application/xml</default>
           </rules>
       </parameter>
       <parameter name="transport.jms.Destination">MyJMSQueue</parameter>
   </proxy>

Proxy Service Configuration

You can specify a different content type within the transport.jms.ContentType parameter. In the sample configuration above, the content type defined is application/xml.

If you want the proxy service to listen to a queue where the queue name is different from the proxy service name, you can specify the queue name using transport.jms.Destination parameter. In the sample configuration above WSO2 EI listens to a JMS queue named MyJMSQueue.