Install Open MQ 4.4 on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Intro

Snow Leopard comes with a native 64 bit Java 1.6 environment. The Open MQ binaries are made for the JDK 1.5 in 32 bit. This article shows how to make Open MQ work on OS X 1.6 by compiling from source.

Steps

• Set environment
export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home
export ANT_HOME=$HOME/apache-ant-1.7.1
export ANT_OPTS=-Xmx512m
export IMQ_HOME=$HOME/mq/dist/mq
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$IMQ_HOME/lib/jms.jar:$IMQ_HOME/lib/imq.jar

• Download and unpack ant in your home directory
• Download and uppack OpenMQ 4.4 source in your home directory
• Create extlib:
mkdir ~/mq/extlib
• Download the Java EE 5 API into extlib:

  http://download.java.net/maven/1/javaee/jars/javaee-api-5.jar

• Compile Open MQ:
cd ~/mq
ant
• Test Open MQ:
cd dist/mq/bin
./imqbrokerd -tty &
cd ../examples/helloworld/helloworldmessage
java HelloWorldMessage
You should see
Sending Message: Hello World
Read Message: Hello World
And some debug messages on the imqbrokerd console.

References

• Open MQ Compilation Guide