JMS over HTTP, HTTP tunneling, imqhttp, Glassfish, Open MQ

Hi,

I want to run JMS over HTTP, because of firewalls.

My environment:

- Windows 7 64 bits
- Java EE 6 SDK (Glassfish 3, installer java_ee_sdk-6u4-jdk7-windows-x64.exe)

Following instructions (Oracle GlassFish Server Message Queue Administration Guide, HTTP/HTTPS Support), I have done as follows:

1.- modified default.properties (in my case file \usr\Glassfish3\mq\lib\props\broker\default.properties) by adding "httpjms" to imq.service.activelist, so I have:

# List of active services, started at startup
imq.service.activelist=jms,admin,httpjms

2.- modified server.policy file (in my case \usr\Glassfish3\glassfish\domains\domain1\config\server.policy) by adding at the end:

grant codeBase "file:${com.sun.aas.installRoot}/glassfish/domains/domain1/applications/imqhttp/-" {

permission java.net.SocketPermission "*",
"connect,accept,resolve";

};

3.- I then, using the Glassfish Admin Console (listening on port 4848), deployed the application packaged in the imqhttp.war WAR file (this WAR file taken from \usr\Glassfish3\mq\lib), using "imqhttp" as Context Root name.

4.- I then invoke URL http://127.0.0.1:8080/imqhttp/tunnel and get the following return:

HTTP tunneling servlet ready.
Servlet Start Time : Wed Jul 04 19:28:01 CEST 2012
Accepting TCP connections from brokers on port : 7675
Total available brokers = 1
Broker List :
ANTEC:imqbroker

Importantly: I had to reboot everything, including Windows to get the broker listed in the broker list.

...uh !!???!! ...it just shows that posting to discussion groups and sharing is great... yesterday, I could not get this working, I had nothing in my Broker list, and a bunch of exceptions when trying to publish a message... I swear I re-started Glassfish many times... now it's working all right, and the only thing I've done meantime is to reboot the PC...

In any case, I keep the post, it might be of help to someone.

Later

Varus