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 to quickly lead a user to the information they need. 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.
Note
Except where expressly noted, you can find the books listed in this chapter on the Red Hat Customer Portal.

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.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Installation Guide
    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.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Migration Guide
    Describes all changes made to the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ software and provides instructions for integrating the changes into existing applications.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Client Connectivity Guide
    Describes each of the supported transport options and connectivity protocols in detail and includes code examples.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Configuring Broker Persistence
    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.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Using Networks of Brokers
    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.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Fault Tolerant Messaging
    Describes how to implement fault tolerance using a master/slave cluster.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Tuning Guide
    Describes techniques for fine tuning your broker's performance.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Security Guide
    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.

System administrators

The books listed here provide information and instructions to support system administrator functions.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Installation Guide
    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.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Migration Guide
    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.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Managing and Monitoring a Broker
    Provides detailed instructions for managing a Red Hat JBoss A-MQ deployment.
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Security Guide
    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.
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Fuse Management Console User Guide
    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 Red Hat JBoss A-MQ.