Chapter 5. Getting More Information
Abstract
There is a wealth of information about Red Hat JBoss A-MQ. Most of it is written and maintained by Red Hat or our engineers.
5.1. Red Hat Documentation
Overview
The Red Hat JBoss A-MQ documentation is designed to be task oriented and lead to a user to the information they need quickly. The reading lists below are broken up by user type and organized in the order in which a user will likely want to read the content.
Basics
The books listed here provide information about JMS messaging and the basic information needed to develop messaging applications with Red Hat JBoss A-MQ.
- Provides detailed instructions for installing the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ software on Windows, Linux, Unix, and OS X platforms, using the binary distributions or building from source code. It also lays out the prerequisites needed to ensure a successful installation.
- Describes all changes made to the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ software and provides instructions for integrating the changes into existing applications.
- Describes each of the supported transport options and connectivity protocols in detail and includes code examples.
- Describes the basic concepts of message persistence and provides detailed information on the supported message stores: KahaDB and JDBC database with/without journaling. It also describes how to use message cursors to improve the scalability of the message store.
- Describes basic network of brokers concepts and topologies, network connectors, discovery protocols for dynamically discovering and reconnecting to brokers in a network, and balancing consumer and producer loads.
- Describes how to implement fault tolerance using a master/slave cluster.
- Describes techniques for fine tuning your broker's performance.
- Describes how to secure the communications between your client applications and the broker. It also describes how to secure access to the broker's administrative interfaces.
- Links to the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.0 Javadoc.
- Links to Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.0 XML Schema Reference, where, for each namespace, all available components are listed.
System administrators
The books listed here provide information and instructions to support system administrator functions.
- Provides detailed instructions for installing the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ software on Windows, Linux, Unix, and OS X platforms, using the binary distributions or building from source code. It also lays out the prerequisites needed to ensure a successful installation.
- Describes all of the latest changes made to the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ software and, where necessary, provides instructions for integrating the changes into existing systems.
- Provides detailed instructions for managing a Red Hat JBoss A-MQ deployment.
- Describes how to secure transport protocols and Java clients, how to set up JAAS authentication on broker-to-broker configurations, and how to secure Red Hat JBoss A-MQ JMX connectors.
- Describes how to use the management console to monitor distributed Red Hat JBoss A-MQ deployments.
- Describes how to use JBoss Operations Network to monitor and manage Red Hat JBoss A-MQ.
