How to access an ActiveMQ queue from WSO2 ESB which is secured with a username/password

By default, a queue in ActiveMQ can be accessed without providing any credentials. However, in real world scenarios, you will have to deal with secured queues. So in this blog, I will explain how we can enable security for ActiveMQ and what configurations are required to be done in WSO2 ESB.

Pr-requisites - Enable the JMS transport for WSO2 ESB as explained in [1].

Step 1 - Secure the ActiveMQ instance with credentials.

To do this, add the below configuration to the activemq.xml under the <broker> tag and start the server.

<plugins>
    <simpleAuthenticationPlugin anonymousAccessAllowed="true">
        <users>
            <authenticationUser username="system" password="system" groups="users,admins"/>
            <authenticationUser username="admin" password="admin" groups="users,admins"/>
            <authenticationUser username="user" password="user" groups="users"/>
            <authenticationUser username="guest" password="guest" groups="guests"/>
        </users>
    </simpleAuthenticationPlugin>
</plugins>

Step 2 - Enable the JMS Listener configuration and configure it as shown below.

    <!--Uncomment this and configure as appropriate for JMS transport support, after setting up your JMS environment (e.g. ActiveMQ)-->
    <transportReceiver name="jms" class="org.apache.axis2.transport.jms.JMSListener">
        <parameter name="myTopicConnectionFactory" locked="false">
                <parameter name="java.naming.factory.initial" locked="false">org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory</parameter>
                <parameter name="java.naming.provider.url" locked="false">tcp://localhost:61616</parameter>
                <parameter name="java.naming.security.principal" locked="false">admin</parameter>
                <parameter name="java.naming.security.credentials" locked="false">admin</parameter>
                <parameter locked="false" name="transport.jms.UserName">admin</parameter>
                <parameter locked="false" name="transport.jms.Password">admin</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName" locked="false">TopicConnectionFactory</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryType" locked="false">topic</parameter>
        </parameter>

        <parameter name="myQueueConnectionFactory" locked="false">
                <parameter name="java.naming.factory.initial" locked="false">org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory</parameter>
                <parameter name="java.naming.provider.url" locked="false">tcp://localhost:61616</parameter>
                <parameter name="java.naming.security.principal" locked="false">admin</parameter>
                <parameter name="java.naming.security.credentials" locked="false">admin</parameter>
                <parameter locked="false" name="transport.jms.UserName">admin</parameter>
                <parameter locked="false" name="transport.jms.Password">admin</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName" locked="false">QueueConnectionFactory</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryType" locked="false">queue</parameter>
        </parameter>

        <parameter name="default" locked="false">
                <parameter name="java.naming.factory.initial" locked="false">org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory</parameter>
                <parameter name="java.naming.provider.url" locked="false">tcp://localhost:61616</parameter>
                <parameter name="java.naming.security.principal" locked="false">admin</parameter>
                <parameter name="java.naming.security.credentials" locked="false">admin</parameter>
                <parameter locked="false" name="transport.jms.UserName">admin</parameter>
                <parameter locked="false" name="transport.jms.Password">admin</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName" locked="false">QueueConnectionFactory</parameter>
                <parameter name="transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryType" locked="false">queue</parameter>
        </parameter>
    </transportReceiver>

Step 3 - Create a Proxy service to listen to a JMS queue in ActiveMQ.

Once the ESB server is started, create the below Proxy service and let it listen to the queue generated in ActiveMQ.


   <proxy name="StockQuoteProxy1" transports="jms" startOnLoad="true">
      <target>
         <endpoint>
            <address uri="http://localhost:9000/services/SimpleStockQuoteService"/>
         </endpoint>
         <inSequence>
            <property name="OUT_ONLY" value="true"/>
         </inSequence>
         <outSequence>
            <send/>
         </outSequence>
      </target>
      <publishWSDL uri="file:repository/samples/resources/proxy/sample_proxy_1.wsdl"/>
      <parameter name="transport.jms.ContentType">
         <rules>
            <jmsProperty>contentType</jmsProperty>
            <default>application/xml</default>
         </rules>
      </parameter>
   </proxy>
Once the above proxy service is deployed, send a request to the queue and observe how the message is processed and send to the backend. You can use the sample available in [2] to test this scenario out.

If you are sending a JMS request you can use the username and the password in the URL as shown below.
ant stockquote -Dmode=placeorder -Dtrpurl="jms:/StockQuoteProxy1?transport.jms.DestinationType=queue&transport.jms.ContentTypeProperty=contentType&java.naming.provider.url=tcp://localhost:61616&java.naming.factory.initial=org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory&transport.jms.UserName="admin"&transport.jms.Password="admin"&transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryType=queue&transport.jms.ConnectionFactoryJNDIName=QueueConnectionFactory"


[1] - https://docs.wso2.com/display/ESB490/Configure+with+ActiveMQ
[2] - https://docs.wso2.com/display/ESB490/Sample+250%3A+Introduction+to+Switching+Transports