Systems based on messaging are increasingly being recognized for better handling of unpredictable changes and for scaling further than traditional tightly-coupled applications. Apache ActiveMQ is an open source message broker that that support the Java Messages Service, provides client access from many different languages and offers many advanced features necessary for enterprise level messaging. This session provides a crash course in JMS, discusses aspects of understanding messaging and introduces ActiveMQ and it’s large amount of features. Attendees to this session will gain knowledge of enterprise messaging and insight into the use of ActiveMQ’s many advanced features.