The Windows Fuse Message Broker administrative tool uses four environment variables to determine where to locate configuration files, runtime libraries, and data files. In addition, it requires that your Java environment is properly set up.

Optionally, you may also want to add the administrative tool to the shell's path so that you can use the tool from anywhere.

Table 1 describes the environment variables used by the administration tool on Windows platforms.

You must set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the location of the Java installation you want to use for running Fuse Message Broker.

Example 1 shows a sample script for setting up the administration tool's environment.

@echo off
set ACTIVEMQ_HOME=ActiveMQInstallDir
set ACTIVEMQ_BASE=BrokerInstanceDir
set PATH=%PATH%;%ACTIVEMQ_HOME%\bin

REM Configure Java
set JAVA_HOME=JavaInstallDir
set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH%

set ACTIVEMQ_CLASSPATH=%ACTIVEMQ_HOME%\lib\optional\activemq-optional-5.5.1-fuse-00-xx.jar

echo Setting Apache ActiveMQ 5.5 environment

This sample script sets JAVA_HOME as well as the Fuse Message Broker specific environment variables. In addition, it adds the activemq-optional-5.5.1-fuse-00-xx.jar JAR file to your Fuse Message Broker classpath so that the optional feature of the broker are available.