[jira] [Resolved] (AMQ-3248) Allow for easy externalization of ActiveMQ configuration

["Timothy Bish (Resolved) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3248?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Timothy Bish resolved AMQ-3248.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 5.6.0
         Assignee: Timothy Bish

fix applied in trunk
                
> Allow for easy externalization of ActiveMQ configuration
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AMQ-3248
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3248
>             Project: ActiveMQ
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Broker
>    Affects Versions: 5.4.2
>            Reporter: Torsten Mielke
>            Assignee: Timothy Bish
>              Labels: configuration
>             Fix For: 5.6.0
>
>         Attachments: AMQ-3248.patch, AMQ-3248.patch, AMQ-3248.patch
>
>   Original Estimate: 4h
>  Remaining Estimate: 4h
>
> Currently many of the AMQ configuration files use the property activemq.base to load in other configuration files, e.g. 
> activemq.xml:
> {code:title=activmeq.xml}
> <property name="locations">
>   <value>file:${activemq.base}/conf/credentials.properties</value>
> </property>      
> {code}
> jetty.xml:
> {code:title=jetty.xml}
> <bean id="securityLoginService" class="org.eclipse.jetty.security.HashLoginService">
>   <property name="name" value="ActiveMQRealm" />
>   <property name="config" value="${activemq.base}/conf/jetty-realm.properties" />
> </bean>
> {code}
> webconsole-embedded.xml:
> {code:title=webconsole-embedded.xml}
> <property name="locations">
>   <value>file:${activemq.base}/conf/credentials.properties</value>
> </property>
> {code}
> and others.
> In case where you want to externalize the entire ActiveMQ configuration into a folder that is not a sub folder of AMQ, there is the need to change multiple configuration files. This is error prone. 
> In order to make the use of external AMQ configuration more easy to use, I suggest to 
> 1. Make use of the already existing environment variable ACTIVEMQ_CONFIG_DIR which points to ${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/conf by default in bin/activemq script. 
> 2. Map the environment variable to the Java variable activemq.conf in bin/activemq script
> 2. Replace all occurences of ${activemq.base}/conf with {$activemq.conf} in all XML configuration files (including those in webapps/ folder)
> That way one can simply point to an external ActiveMQ conf folder by setting the shell environment variable ACTIVE_CONFIG_DIR to that folder. It does not have to be set in the bin/activemq script, it can be set directly on the shell. 

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