ActiveMQ Classic 6 – Hawtio Plugin

A modern, fast, and modular management console for ActiveMQ Classic 6, delivered as a fully self‑contained Hawtio 5 federated plugin running on Jetty 11 / Jakarta EE.

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✨ Key Features

✔️ Queues

• Queue list
• Detailed metrics
• Charts and trends
• Alerts
• Throughput and lag
• Storage usage
• DLQ inspection
• Consumers overview
• Operations
• Message browser

✔️ Topics

• Topic list
• Detailed metrics
• Charts and alerts
• Subscribers and producers
• Operations
• Send message
• Delete topic

✔️ Broker

• Global dashboard
• Trends and activity
• Throughput
• Storage usage
• Alerts
• Top producers
• Top consumers

✔️ Router

• Hash‑based routing
• No external dependencies
• Fully compatible with Hawtio 4

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Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Install frontend dependencies:

2.1 The followin steps are required for building frontend only, skip for building whole plugin

yarn install --immutable

yarn build

2.2. Build the plugin JAR:

./mvnw (or maven) clean package

5. Drop the resulting JAR into your Hawtio plugins directory and test.

Architecture

See Architecture for a detailed overview of:

• Plugin lifecycle
• Servlet integration
• UI resource bundling
• Jetty / Jakarta EE compatibility
• Module boundaries and extension points

Roadmap

Short‑term

• Add screenshots and UI documentation
• Improve metrics visualization
• Add more broker‑level insights
• Expand test coverage

Mid‑term

• Introduce plugin configuration UI
• Add message search and filtering
• Enhanced DLQ tooling
• Performance profiling tools

Long‑term

• Optional multi‑module architecture
• Support for additional brokers
• Advanced routing strategies
• Plugin marketplace integration

Security

Do not report security issues publicly. See SECURITY.md for the full disclosure policy.

Code of Conduct

This project follows a respectful and collaborative community model. See CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Before opening an issue or pull request, please review:

• Issue templates see issue templates
• Pull request template: see pull_request_template.md
• Dependency update policy: see .github/dependabot.yml

All contributions should maintain:

• Code clarity and consistency
• Compatibility with Hawtio and Jetty
• Minimal external dependencies
• Operational stability See CONTRIBUTING.md

Dependency Update Policy

Dependabot is configured with:

• Annual update schedule
• Grouped updates (Jetty, Hawtio, Jackson, Logging, Test, Build)
• Exclusions for Jakarta EE and SLF4J (version‑locked to Hawtio)
• GitHub Actions updates included See .github/dependabot.yml for details.

ActiveMQ support

Read the ACTIVEMQ.md for deployment notes

License

Apache 2 License. See the LICENSE.md file for more information.