NATS JMS Bridge.

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The NATS JMS Bridge has been released!

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The focus is on forwarding request/reply message from JMS and IBM MQ to nats.io, but queue to queue forwarding should also work as well as support for JMS (ActiveMQ). More focus has been put on to IBM MQ’s JMS support. See examples for transforms and header support.

A request gets sent to nats.io which then sends that request to IBM/MQ/JMS.
Bridge gets the response and sends it back to the original client.
The focus is on Queues and Request/Reply as well as Forwarding.
Transforms and header support is working.

Basic flow


                        +-------------------+         +-----------------+ 3      +-----------+ 4      +------------+
                        |                   | 2       |                 |        |           |sendTo  |            |
                        | NATS Server       |sendToQueue                |send    |JMS Server |Queue   |   ServiceA |
                        |  subject serviceA +---------> NATSMqJMSBridge +------->+           +-------->            |
                        |                   |         |                 |        |Queue      |        |            |
+----------+ request 1  |                   |publish  |                 |        |ServiceA   |        |            |
|          +------------>                   +<--------+                 <--------+           <--------+            |
| Client   |            |                   | 8       |                 | sendTo |           | send   |            |
|          |            |                   |         |                 | Response           |  5     |            |
|          <------------+                   |         |                 | Queue  |           |        |            |
+----------+ sendTo     +-------------------+         +-----------------+  6     +-----------+        +------------+
             Response
             Queue
               9

This all happens async.

NATS Bridge Admin Console

Admin Console Swagger Open API

NATS JMS/MQ Bridge

In the core NATS bridge, there are working integration tests to Bridge REQUEST/REPLY queues between NATS and IBM MQ as well as ActiveMQ JMS. This bridging is bi-directional. The bridge can perform a QUEUE to QUEUE FORWARD or a REQUEST/REPLAY DELEGATION. The bridge can also copy JMS headers from NATS to JMS and back.

The NATS JMS/MQ Bridge is broken up into two parts. The admin and the core lib. The admin is written with Spring Boot and consists of an executable jar file, an application zip file, and now a docker container. The docker container uses NGINX to do SSL/TLS termination.

Adding Workers and Tasks

bridges:
- name: "natsToIBMMq"
  bridgeType: "REQUEST_REPLY"
  source:
    name: "nats"
    busType: "NATS"
    subject: "b-subject"
    clusterName: "natsCluster"
  destination:
    name: "ibmMQ"
    busType: "JMS"
    subject: "DEV.QUEUE.1"
    clusterName: "ibmMqCluster"
  copyHeaders: false
  workers: 10
  tasks : 5

See Admin guide for information on how to set up bridges and import new bridge data with csv files.

Bridge works with JMS and NATS

The NATS bridge works with JMS and NATS.

It has been tested with ActiveMQ and IBM MQ. As part of the install, you can run this bridge against a docker images that has IBM MQ installed.

The Admin Console uses Open API REST

Admin Console Swagger Open API

The Admin Console for NATS JMS/MQ Bridge uses Open API REST end points and comes with a command line utility. See Admin guide for information on how to set up bridges and import new bridge data with csv files.

Admin features

The admin provides a REST interface with JWT tokens and command line utilities. It is meant to be run behind NGINX or Apache (or some load balancer / reverse proxy that does SSL / TLS termination). The admin provides an admin user that can create other users. Users can generate a secure JWT token which they can use to use command tools that hit the admin’s REST interface.

The admin emits metrics which are configured to be picked up with tools like Prometheus, DataDog, InfluxDB, CloudWatch, etc. See the CICD directory to see example docker-deploys that use Prometheus.

IBM Config

Configure these environment variables to enable your NATS JMS/MQ Bridge to access your IBM MQ servers.

NATS_BRIDGE_IBM_QUEUE_MODEL_NAME - the name of the Queue Model used for request/replies (defaults to DEV.MODEL).
NATS_BRIDGE_IBM_QUEUE_MODEL_PREFIX - the name of the queue model prefix (defaults to DEV*).
NATS_BRIDGE_IBM_MQ_HOST - the host name of the IBM MQ server (defaults to value tcp://localhost:1414).
NATS_BRIDGE_IBM_MQ_CHANNEL - the channel you are using for your IBM MQ cluster (defaults to "DEV.APP.SVRCONN)
NATS_BRIDGE_IBM_MQ_QUEUE_MANAGER - the name of the queue manager for your IBM MQ cluster (defaults to QM1).

There is a sample IBM MQ Docker image configured to run with these defaults as an example see docker pull synadia/bridge-ibmmq on the Synadia DockerHub. The source for this IBM MQ docker image is in this NATS JMQ/MQ Bridge repo under cicd.

In order to use the request/reply pattern over IBM MQ you have to set up a dynamic queue using a temporary queue model. This queue model will need DISPLAY exposed so it can be used a prototype pattern to create reply queues.

IBM MQ Queue schema for QMODEL with DSP access

...
DEFINE QLOCAL('DEV.DEAD.LETTER.QUEUE') REPLACE
* Creating a model queue to dynamic queues
...
DEFINE QMODEL('DEV.MODEL') REPLACE

* Security settings
SET CHLAUTH('*') TYPE(ADDRESSMAP) ADDRESS('*') USERSRC(NOACCESS) DESCR('Back-stop rule - Blocks everyone') ACTION(REPLACE)
SET CHLAUTH('DEV.APP.SVRCONN') TYPE(ADDRESSMAP) ADDRESS('*') USERSRC(CHANNEL) CHCKCLNT(ASQMGR) DESCR('Allows connection via APP channel') ACTION(REPLACE)
SET CHLAUTH('DEV.ADMIN.SVRCONN') TYPE(BLOCKUSER) USERLIST('nobody') DESCR('Allows admins on ADMIN channel') ACTION(REPLACE)
SET CHLAUTH('DEV.ADMIN.SVRCONN') TYPE(USERMAP) CLNTUSER('admin') USERSRC(CHANNEL) DESCR('Allows admin user to connect via ADMIN channel') ACTION(REPLACE)
SET CHLAUTH('DEV.ADMIN.SVRCONN') TYPE(USERMAP) CLNTUSER('admin') USERSRC(MAP) MCAUSER ('mqm') DESCR ('Allow admin as MQ-admin') ACTION(REPLACE)
* Developer authority records
SET AUTHREC PRINCIPAL('app') OBJTYPE(QMGR) AUTHADD(CONNECT,INQ)
SET AUTHREC PROFILE('DEV.**') PRINCIPAL('app') OBJTYPE(QUEUE) AUTHADD(BROWSE,GET,INQ,PUT,DSP)
SET AUTHREC PROFILE('DEV.**') PRINCIPAL('app') OBJTYPE(TOPIC) AUTHADD(PUB,SUB)

Note that the user app has DSP authority added to access the DEV.MODEL queue model,.

The Install guide for NATS JMS/MQ Bridge

Use this install guide to download and test the NATS JMS/MQ Bridge with IBM MQ.

Download the distribution zip and unzip it


mkdir bridge
cd bridge

wget https://github.com/nats-io/nats-jms-bridge/releases/download/1.0.1/nats-bridge-admin-1.0.1.zip
unzip nats-bridge-admin-1.0.1.zip
rm *.zip

Before you run the server

Before you run the server you may want to download the source code and run the docker-compose out of the cicd folder which starts up IBM MQ, ActiveMQ and NATS Servers in Docker.

git clone https://github.com/nats-io/nats-jms-bridge.git
cd nats-jms-bridge
bin/build.sh localdev

The command bin/build.sh localdev uses docker-deploy to deploy IBM MQ, NATS Server, and ActiveMQ for testing and development.

Use the sample JSSL certs

This copies the sample cert files so that the sample bridge config can find the JSSL certs.

$ pwd
~/bridge

$ mkdir certs                       

$ cp nats-jms-bridge/certs/* certs/

Run the application


cd ..
pwd
~/bridge

cd nats-bridge-admin-*



## Run the server
bin/nats-bridge-admin

Output


 .   ____          _            __ _ _
/\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __  __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
\/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
 '  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
=========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
:: Spring Boot ::        (v2.2.6.RELEASE)

2020-05-01 03:22:06.114  INFO 92828 --- [           main] io.nats.bridge.admin.ApplicationMain     : Starting ApplicationMain on Richards-MacBook-Pro.local with PID 92828 (/Users/richardhightower/bridge/nats-bridge-admin-1.0.1/lib/nats-bridge-admin-1.0.1.jar started by richardhightower in /Users/richardhightower/bridge/nats-bridge-admin-1.0.1)
2
...
2020-05-01 03:22:09.211  INFO 92828 --- [           main] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer  : Tomcat started on port(s): 8080 (http) with context path ''
2020-05-01 03:22:09.214  INFO 92828 --- [           main] io.nats.bridge.admin.ApplicationMain     : Started ApplicationMain in 3.409 seconds (JVM running for 3.688)

Note that after you run the bridge for the first time the following files should be present in the config folder.

ls config/*

config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.json    config/logback.xml            config/nats-bridge.yaml
config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.yaml    config/nats-bridge-logins.yaml

Using the command line tools

To use this tool you must install jq. jq is a lightweight command-line JSON processor. https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ (brew install jq or sudo apt-get install jq or https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/)

If you did not run the integration test then you need to generate the token file before you use the admin.

To set up admin tool for the first time from the NATS Bridge Admin directory run `set-up-admin`


  $ bin/admin.sh set-up-admin

This will create the admin token under config/admin.token. This token is a JWT token that gets used by the admin. Once you generate the admin.token, you may want to delete the config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.yaml and config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.json files. To generate a admin.token for another user follow the procedures in the next section.

See that the token file exists:

ls config/*
config/admin.token            config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.yaml    config/nats-bridge-logins.yaml
config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.json    config/logback.xml            config/nats-bridge.yaml

Note the config/admin.token file that was generated from set-up-admin.

To generate a token for a user use `generate-token`

This is an optional step.

  $ pwd
  /opt/synadia/nats-bridge/admin

  $ bin/admin.sh generate-token $SUBJECT $PUBLIC_KEY $SECRET

When you first run the NATS Bridge Admin for JMS/IBM MQ, it creates the following starter config files:

config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.yaml Login config file with unencoded password (delete after set up)
config/nats-bridge-logins.yaml Login config file with password encoded.
config/nats-bridge.yaml Bridge configuration file.

To create a token file you need to use the subject, publicKey and secretKey out of config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.yaml.

config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.yaml

---
logins:
- subject: "admin"
  secret: "sk-4bfa1d86-0ac0-48a5-8ae1-626a272f12c2"
  publicKey: "pk-55145a05-ec8e-4c33-8b84-b6331f500f2c"
  roles:
  - name: "Admin"
roles:
- name: "Admin"
- name: "User"

Once you know the parameters above, you can generate the admin token as follows.

To generate an admin.token as an example do this

SUBJECT=admin
SECRET=sk-4bfa1d86-0ac0-48a5-8ae1-626a272f12c2
PUBLIC_KEY=pk-55145a05-ec8e-4c33-8b84-b6331f500f2c
bin/admin.sh generate-token $SUBJECT $PUBLIC_KEY $SECRET

You do not need to do this for the admin. This step would be for other users.

To check server health run `health`


  bin/admin.sh health

  {
    "status": "UP",
    "components": {
      "diskSpace": {
        "status": "UP",
        "details": {
          "total": 2000796545024,
          "free": 1640526839808,
          "threshold": 10485760
        }
      },
      "healthChecker": {
        "status": "UP",
        "details": {
          "NATS_MessageBridge": "Available",
          "upTimeSeconds": 511
        }
      },
      "ping": {
        "status": "UP"
      }
    }
  }

To see the server config run `config`

 $ bin/admin.sh config

  {
    "name": "Starter Config",
    "dateTime": "2020-04-24T20:38:50.574",
    "bridges": [
      {
        "name": "jmsToNatsSample",
        "bridgeType": "REQUEST_REPLY",
        "source": {
        ...

To see if the bridge is running run `running`.

   $ bin/admin.sh running

    {
      "message": "Running?",
      "flag": true
    }

To see if the bridge had any errors run `was-error`.

  $ bin/admin.sh was-error

    {
      "message": "Errors?",
      "flag": false
    }

To see the last error run `last-error`


   $ bin/admin.sh last-error
    {
      "message": "ERROR",
      "error": {
        "name": "JMSMessageBusException",
        "message": "Error receiving message",
        "root": "AMQ219017: Consumer is closed"
      }
    }

To clear the last error use `clear-error`


$ bin/admin.sh clear-error

To restart the bridge use `restart`


  $ bin/admin.sh restart

To Stop the bridge use `stop` (use restart to start it again)

  $ bin/admin.sh stop

To See KPI and metrics for the admin

  $ bin/admin.sh kpi

To import a TSV file

 $ bin/admin.sh import tab myimport.tsv

To import a CSV file

 $ bin/admin.sh import tab myimport.csv

The file format of the TSV and CSV is described below.

Run an integration test


cp sampleConf/nats-bridge.yaml config/nats-bridge.yaml

bin/integration.sh

If all goes well, you should see this output.

======== Counts for nats ===========
                 publish_count          0
                 request_count         90
        request_response_count         91
                received_count          0
          received_reply_count          0
   received_reply_count_errors          0
======== Gauges for nats ===========
======== Timers for nats ===========
       request_response_timing         53
          receive_reply_timing          0
REPLY COUNT 100
Running? true
Started? true
Errors? false

NATS JMS MQ Bridge Service service

This is the source code for the NATS JMS MQ Bridge Service Service back-end application developed with Spring Boot.

You can build the project and run tests by running:

    $ ./gradlew build

You can launch the application by running:

    $ ./gradlew bootRun

All development happens in the development branch.

API documentation is in swagger and accessible via the url: HTTP://application_base_url/swagger-ui.html#!

Swagger

http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html#!

Test with curl

Send ping

$ curl localhost:8080/ping

## Output
pong

Curl root

 $ curl localhost:8080/    

## Output
<html><body><H1>NATS JMS BRIDGE ADMIN</H1> <p><a href="./swagger-ui.html#!">Click Here</a></p></body></html>

Show Auth needs a token

$  curl localhost:8080/api/v1/auth/ping  | jq .

Output

{
  "timestamp": "2020-04-23T05:51:49.096+0000",
  "status": 403,
  "error": "Forbidden",
  "message": "No JWT token found in request headers",
  "path": "/api/v1/auth/ping"
}

Generate JWT (Admin)

val loginToken = LoginToken("Rick Hightower", listOf(Role("Admin")))

   curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json"\
                -d '{"subject":"Rick Hightower", "publicKey" : "foobar" }'\
                localhost:8080/api/v1/login/generateToken

Output

{
  "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJSaWNrIiwicm9sZXMiOiJBZG1pbiJ9.hd2yFD_aEDL5IVaTz0TpiqxTTdZ4CteDLp1wquDTabI",
  "subject": "Rick Hightower"
}

Generate JWT (User)

val loginToken = LoginToken("Paul Hix", listOf(Role("User")))

   curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json"\
                -d '{"subject":"Paul Hix", "publicKey" : "iloverick" }'\
                localhost:8080/api/v1/login/generateToken

Output

{
  "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJQYXVsIEhpeCIsInJvbGVzIjoiVXNlciJ9.Pb02geRU-RPyHyGwgxlwnptJ66zAs4nbdR7z53JY6RU",
  "subject": "Paul Hix"
}

Actual Admin

 $ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json"\
    -d '{"subject":"admin", "publicKey" : "pk-56de4859-0e0e-485b-acc0-c515ac17546b", "secret":"sk-0b483b4f-106e-437c-b1b5-6cf55e9fbd1e" }'\
        http://localhost:8080/api/v1/login/generateToken | jq .

{
  "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJhZG1pbiIsInJvbGVzIjoiQWRtaW4ifQ.UniWFiHOof9NkkMvV18Ch-r7Jm6UAcg1JfjrkUIWEk8",
  "publicKey": "pk-e0f0ffb4-c257-4c61-8a9f-268b00669dbb",
  "subject": "admin"
}

Get config list

To hit the swagger UI direct when in dev use this:

ADMIN
- Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJSaWNrIiwicm9sZXMiOiJBZG1pbiJ9.hd2yFD_aEDL5IVaTz0TpiqxTTdZ4CteDLp1wquDTabI
USER
- Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJQYXVsIEhpeCIsInJvbGVzIjoiVXNlciJ9.Pb02geRU-RPyHyGwgxlwnptJ66zAs4nbdR7z53JY6RU
512
- Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJhZG1pbiIsInJvbGVzIjoiQWRtaW4ifQ.RPRNPM3wPFlkkcBgOHemfpDCWPCM5RKU60TwA9Z04UrehhYJBMkPmMOGWWRhBj0Csk8cMxJhvsq5kj7-ffF-Hw

From User

   curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJQYXVsIEhpeCIsInJvbGVzIjoiVXNlciJ9.Pb02geRU-RPyHyGwgxlwnptJ66zAs4nbdR7z53JY6RU"\
          localhost:8080/api/v1/bridges/admin/config

Output

{
  "timestamp": "2020-04-23T05:53:04.898+0000",
  "status": 401,
  "error": "Unauthorized",
  "message": "Paul Hix is not authorized",
  "path": "/api/v1/bridges/admin/config"
}

From Admin

   curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJSaWNrIiwicm9sZXMiOiJBZG1pbiJ9.hd2yFD_aEDL5IVaTz0TpiqxTTdZ4CteDLp1wquDTabI"\
          localhost:8080/api/v1/bridges/admin/config

Output

{
  "name": "Starter Config",
  "dateTime": "2020-04-22T21:49:55.292397",
  "bridges": [
    {
      "name": "jmsToNatsSample",
      "bridgeType": "REQUEST_REPLY",
      "source": {
        "name": "jms",
        "busType": "JMS",
        "config": {
          "type": "jms",
          "name": "ActiveMQ Sample",
          "config": {
            "java.naming.factory.initial": "org.apache.activemq.artemis.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory",
            "connectionFactory.ConnectionFactory": "tcp://localhost:61616",
            "queue.queue/testQueue": "queue.queue/testQueue=testQueue"
          },
          "destinationName": "dynamicQueues/sample-jms-queue"
        }
      },
      "destination": {
        "name": "NATS Sample",
        "busType": "NATS",
        "config": {
          "type": "nats",
          "name": "nats",
          "host": "localhost",
          "port": 4222,
          "servers": [],
          "config": {},
          "subject": "sample-nats-subject"
        }
      },
      "copyHeaders": false
    },
    {
      "name": "jmsToNatsSample",
      "bridgeType": "REQUEST_REPLY",
      "source": {
        "name": "Source NATS Sample",
        "busType": "NATS",
        "config": {
          "type": "nats",
          "name": "activeMQ",
          "host": "localhost",
          "port": 4222,
          "servers": [],
          "config": {
            "java.naming.factory.initial": "org.apache.activemq.artemis.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory",
            "connectionFactory.ConnectionFactory": "tcp://localhost:61616",
            "queue.queue/testQueue": "queue.queue/testQueue=testQueue"
          },
          "subject": "sample-nats-subject"
        }
      },
      "destination": {
        "name": "Destination JMS ActiveMQ",
        "busType": "JMS",
        "config": {
          "type": "jms",
          "name": "ActiveMQ Sample",
          "config": {
            "java.naming.factory.initial": "org.apache.activemq.artemis.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory",
            "connectionFactory.ConnectionFactory": "tcp://localhost:61616",
            "queue.queue/testQueue": "queue.queue/testQueue=testQueue"
          },
          "destinationName": "dynamicQueues/sample-jms-queue"
        }
      },
      "copyHeaders": false
    }
  ]
}

Show current user roles

Paul

   curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJQYXVsIEhpeCIsInJvbGVzIjoiVXNlciJ9.Pb02geRU-RPyHyGwgxlwnptJ66zAs4nbdR7z53JY6RU"\
          localhost:8080/api/v1/logins/admin/roles

Rick

   curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJSaWNrIiwicm9sZXMiOiJBZG1pbiJ9.hd2yFD_aEDL5IVaTz0TpiqxTTdZ4CteDLp1wquDTabI"\
          localhost:8080/api/v1/logins/admin/roles

export TOKEN=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJMT0dJTl9UT0tFTiIsInN1YmplY3QiOiJhZG1pbiIsInJvbGVzIjoiQWRtaW4ifQ.UniWFiHOof9NkkMvV18Ch-r7Jm6UAcg1JfjrkUIWEk8

curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"\
          localhost:8080/api/v1/bridges/admin/config | jq .

Bridge Configuration Notes

Note that many items have a name. It is important to give short concise names as they are used for reporting health issues, alerts, metrics and KPIs.

The NATS JMS/MQ Bridge bridges message bus systems. This allows sending and receiving messages between message bus systems like JMS and IBM MQ.

NatsBridgeConfig

NatsBridgeConfig is the root config object for exporting to and reading from JSON and YAML.

Clusters refer to message bus servers for NATS or JMS/IBM MQ.

NatsBridgeConfig Schema

data class NatsBridgeConfig(val name: String,
                            val bridges: List<MessageBridge>,
                            val clusters: Map<String, Cluster>)

NATS Bridge in YAML

name: "Starter Config"

bridges:
- name: "jmsToNatsSample"
  bridgeType: "REQUEST_REPLY"
  source:
    name: "jms"
    busType: "JMS"
    subject: "dynamicQueues/sample-jms-queue"
    clusterName: "activeMQTest"
  destination:
    name: "NATS Sample"
    busType: "NATS"
    subject: "sample-nats-subject"
    clusterName: "natsTest"
  copyHeaders: false
- name: "natsToJMS"
  bridgeType: "FORWARD"
  source:
    name: "NATS Sample"
    busType: "NATS"
    subject: "sample-nats-subject"
    clusterName: "natsTest"
  destination:
    name: "jms"
    busType: "JMS"
    subject: "dynamicQueues/sample-jms-queue"
    clusterName: "activeMQTest"
  copyHeaders: false
clusters:
  activeMQTest:
    name: "activeMQTest"
    properties: !<jms>
      config:
        java.naming.factory.initial: "org.apache.activemq.artemis.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory"
        connectionFactory.ConnectionFactory: "tcp://localhost:61616"
        queue.queue/testQueue: "queue.queue/testQueue=testQueue"
      jmsDestinationType: "QUEUE"
  natsTest:
    name: "natsTest"
    properties: !<nats>
      host: "localhost"
      port: 4222
      servers: []
      config: {}

MessageBus

A Message bus represents a message bus system, i.e., IBM MQ, NATS, ActiveMQ, JMS, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, SQS, etc. A message bus has a subject which can be NATS subject or a JMS destination.

MessageBus Schema

data class MessageBus(val name: String, val busType: BusType, val subject: String, val clusterName: String)

MessageBus In YAML


    name: "NATS Sample"
    busType: "NATS"
    subject: "sample-nats-subject"
    clusterName: "natsTest"

MessageBridge

A MessageBridge connects two MessageBus and will forward messages or relay request/replies between the message bus systems. There is a source MessageBus and a destination MessageBus.

MessageBridge Schema

data class MessageBridge(val name: String, val bridgeType: BridgeType,
                         val source: MessageBus, val destination: MessageBus, val copyHeaders: Boolean? = false)

MessageBridge In YAML

- name: "jmsToNatsSample"
  bridgeType: "REQUEST_REPLY"
  source:
    name: "jms"
    busType: "JMS"
    subject: "dynamicQueues/sample-jms-queue"
    clusterName: "activeMQTest"
  destination:
    name: "NATS Sample"
    busType: "NATS"
    subject: "sample-nats-subject"
    clusterName: "natsTest"
  copyHeaders: false #should you copy headers between message busses

BusType

BusType Schema

enum class BusType { JMS, NATS }

BusType In YAML

busType: "NATS"

Note that busType is an attribute of MessageBus.

NATS JMS / IBM MQ Bridge currently supports two supported message bus types namely JMS (ActiveMQ and IBM MQ), and NATS.

It is possible that this system could support NATS Streaming, Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, and more in the future.

Through JMS support, the NATS bridge could theoretically support the following JMS implementations:

Amazon SQS’s Java Messaging Library
Apache ActiveMQ
Apache Qpid, using AMQP
IBM MQ (formerly MQSeries, then WebSphere MQ)
IBM WebSphere Application Server’s Service Integration Bus (SIBus)
JBoss Messaging and HornetQ from JBoss
JORAM from the OW2 Consortium
Open Message Queue from Oracle
OpenJMS from the OpenJMS Group
Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle AQ
RabbitMQ from Pivotal Software
SwiftMQ and others

BridgeType

The two supported Bridge types are request/reply and forward to subject/destination (queue to queue).

BridgeType Schema

enum class BridgeType { REQUEST_REPLY, FORWARD }

BridgeType In YAML

  bridgeType: "REQUEST_REPLY"

Note that bridgeType is an attribute of MessageBridge.

Cluster

Cluster is a way to set up a server or groups of servers for a MessageBus like NATS, or IBM MQ. This allows the easy configuration of bridges by moving the server/cluster configuration out of the bridge configuration code. Then the message buses (MessageBuses) in a bridge (MessageBridge) refer to the cluster name instead of inlining the server/cluster configuration for each bridge.

Cluster Schema

data class Cluster(val name: String?, val properties: ClusterConfig)

interface ClusterConfig {
    val config: Map<String, String>
    val userName: String?
    val password: String?
}

/**
 * Specific cluster config object for JMS.
 */
data class JmsClusterConfig(override val config: Map<String, String> = emptyMap(),
                            override val userName: String? = null, override val password: String? = null,
                            val jmsDestinationType: JmsDestinationType = JmsDestinationType.QUEUE) : ClusterConfig

/**
 * Specific cluster config object for NATS.
 */
data class NatsClusterConfig(override val userName: String? = null, override val password: String? = null,
                             val host: String? = null, val port: Int? = -1, val servers: List<String>? = emptyList(),
                             override val config: Map<String, String> = emptyMap()) : ClusterConfig

Cluster In YAML

ActiveMQ Cluster

  activeMQTest:
    name: "activeMQTest"
    properties: !<jms>
      config:
        java.naming.factory.initial: "org.apache.activemq.artemis.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory"
        connectionFactory.ConnectionFactory: "tcp://localhost:61616"
        queue.queue/testQueue: "queue.queue/testQueue=testQueue"
      jmsDestinationType: "QUEUE"

NATS Cluster


  natsTest:
    name: "natsTest"
    properties: !<nats>
      host: "localhost"
      port: 4222
      servers: []
      config: {}

TSV File format for Bridges Config

To simplify set up, the bridge allows importing TSV files.

You can import TSV files to configure the NATS JMS/MQ bridge.

To import a group of configured bridges refer to the following example:

# JMS to NATS Bridge
jms To NATS <TAB> r <TAB> jms Bar <TAB> j <TAB> queue/barQueue <TAB> activeMQTest<TAB> nats Foo <TAB> n <TAB> fooSubject<TAB> natsTest
# NATS To JMS Bridge
NATS To JMS <TAB> f <TAB> nat Bar <TAB> n <TAB> natsBarSubject <TAB> natsTest    <TAB> jms Foo  <TAB> j <TAB> queue/Foo <TAB> activeMQTest

Lines that begin with # are comments
There will be exactly 10 entries per line that denote the config of two buses (MessageBus) that make up a bridge (MessageBridge)
Each line that is not a comment refers to a bridge (MessageBridge)
White space around the <TAB>s (refers to \t, i.e., 0x9) is ignored

The format for the bridge line (MessageBridge) is as follows:

BRIDGE_NAME <TAB> BRIDGE_TYPE <TAB> SOURCE_NAME <TAB> SOURCE_TYPE <TAB> SOURCE_SUBJECT <TAB> SOURCE_CLUSTER <TAB> DESTINATION_NAME  <TAB> DESTINATION_TYPE <TAB> DESTINATION_SUBJECT <TAB> DESTINATION_CLUSTER

Position numbers and allowed values for CSV file

    private const val BRIDGE_NAME = 0
    private const val BRIDGE_TYPE = 1
    private const val SOURCE_NAME = 2
    private const val SOURCE_TYPE = 3
    private const val SOURCE_SUBJECT = 4
    private const val SOURCE_CLUSTER = 5
    private const val DESTINATION_NAME = 6
    private const val DESTINATION_TYPE = 7
    private const val DESTINATION_SUBJECT = 8
    private const val DESTINATION_CLUSTER = 9
    private const val BRIDGE_TYPE_REQUEST_REPLY = "r"
    private const val BRIDGE_TYPE_REQUEST_FORWARD = "f"
    private val VALID_BRIDGE_TYPES = setOf(BRIDGE_TYPE_REQUEST_FORWARD, BRIDGE_TYPE_REQUEST_REPLY)
    private const val BRIDGE_TYPE_JMS = "j"
    private const val BRIDGE_TYPE_NATS = "n"
    private val VALID_BUS_TYPES = setOf(BRIDGE_TYPE_JMS, BRIDGE_TYPE_NATS)

Each position explained.


# Name of bridge  Request/reply or Forward
#                                                     JMS or NATS       Source Destination   Cluster Name                          
# 0 POS           1 POS (r or f)    2 POS             3 POS (j or n)    4 POS                5 POS                6 POS                   7 POS                  8 POS                     9 POS                          
BRIDGE_NAME <TAB> BRIDGE_TYPE <TAB> SOURCE_NAME <TAB> SOURCE_TYPE <TAB> SOURCE_SUBJECT <TAB> SOURCE_CLUSTER <TAB> DESTINATION_NAME  <TAB> DESTINATION_TYPE <TAB> DESTINATION_SUBJECT <TAB> DESTINATION_CLUSTER

Parsing a single TSV Line


    fun parseLine(line: String, clusterConfigs: Map<String, Cluster>, delim: String="\t"): MessageBridge {
        val parts = line.split(delim).map{it.trim()}.filter { !it.isBlank() }.toList()
        if (parts.size != 10) throw BridgeDelimImporterException("Line must have ten cells but only has a size of ${parts.size}")
        val name = parts[BRIDGE_NAME]
        val sBridgeType = parts[BRIDGE_TYPE]
        val sourceName = parts[SOURCE_NAME]
        val sSourceType = parts[SOURCE_TYPE]
        val sourceSubject = parts[SOURCE_SUBJECT]
        val sourceClusterName = parts[SOURCE_CLUSTER]
        val destName = parts[DESTINATION_NAME]
        val sDestType = parts[DESTINATION_TYPE]
        val destSubject = parts[DESTINATION_SUBJECT]
        val destClusterName = parts[DESTINATION_CLUSTER]

        if (!VALID_BRIDGE_TYPES.contains(sBridgeType))
            throw BridgeDelimImporterException("bridge $name has illegal bridge type, " +
                    "$sBridgeType not in (r, f), $parts")
        if (!VALID_BUS_TYPES.contains(sSourceType))
            throw BridgeDelimImporterException("bridge $name has illegal source bus type, " +
                    "$sSourceType not in (n, j), $parts")
        if (!VALID_BUS_TYPES.contains(sDestType))
            throw BridgeDelimImporterException("bridge $name has illegal destination bus type, " +
                    "$sDestType not in (n, j), $parts")
        if (!clusterConfigs.containsKey(sourceClusterName))
            throw BridgeDelimImporterException("bridge $name has a source $sourceName for subject $sourceSubject " +
                    "cluster name $sourceClusterName that does not exist, $parts")
        if (!clusterConfigs.containsKey(destClusterName))
            throw BridgeDelimImporterException("bridge $name has a source $destName for subject $destSubject " +
                    "cluster name $destClusterName that does not exist, $parts")

        val bridgeType = if (sBridgeType == BRIDGE_TYPE_REQUEST_REPLY) BridgeType.REQUEST_REPLY else BridgeType.FORWARD
        val sourceType = if (sSourceType == BRIDGE_TYPE_JMS) BusType.JMS else BusType.NATS
        val destType = if (sDestType == BRIDGE_TYPE_JMS) BusType.JMS else BusType.NATS
        val sourceBus = MessageBus(name = sourceName, busType = sourceType, clusterName = sourceClusterName, subject = sourceSubject)
        val destBus = MessageBus(name = destName, busType = destType, clusterName = destClusterName, subject = destSubject)
        return MessageBridge(name = name, bridgeType = bridgeType, source = sourceBus, destination = destBus)
    }

NATS JMS Bridge.

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Current Release 1.0.1

Beta 26

Basic flow

NATS Bridge Admin Console

NATS JMS/MQ Bridge

Adding Workers and Tasks

Bridge works with JMS and NATS

The Admin Console uses Open API REST

Admin features

IBM Config

IBM MQ Queue schema for QMODEL with DSP access

The Install guide for NATS JMS/MQ Bridge

Download the distribution zip and unzip it

Before you run the server

Use the sample JSSL certs

Run the application

Output

Using the command line tools

To set up admin tool for the first time from the NATS Bridge Admin directory run set-up-admin

To generate a token for a user use generate-token

config/initial-nats-bridge-logins.yaml

To generate an admin.token as an example do this

To check server health run health

To see the server config run config

To see if the bridge is running run running.

To see if the bridge had any errors run was-error.

To see the last error run last-error

To clear the last error use clear-error

To restart the bridge use restart

To Stop the bridge use stop (use restart to start it again)

To See KPI and metrics for the admin

To import a TSV file

To import a CSV file

Run an integration test

NATS JMS MQ Bridge Service service

Swagger

Test with curl

Send ping

Curl root

Show Auth needs a token

Output

Generate JWT (Admin)

Output

Generate JWT (User)

Output

Actual Admin

Get config list

From User

Output

From Admin

Output

Show current user roles

Paul

Rick

Bridge Configuration Notes

NatsBridgeConfig

NatsBridgeConfig Schema

NATS Bridge in YAML

MessageBus

MessageBus Schema

MessageBus In YAML

MessageBridge

MessageBridge Schema

MessageBridge In YAML

BusType

BusType Schema

BusType In YAML

BridgeType

BridgeType Schema

BridgeType In YAML

Cluster

Cluster Schema

Cluster In YAML

ActiveMQ Cluster

NATS Cluster

TSV File format for Bridges Config

Position numbers and allowed values for CSV file

Each position explained.

To set up admin tool for the first time from the NATS Bridge Admin directory run `set-up-admin`

To generate a token for a user use `generate-token`

To check server health run `health`

To see the server config run `config`

To see if the bridge is running run `running`.

To see if the bridge had any errors run `was-error`.

To see the last error run `last-error`

To clear the last error use `clear-error`

To restart the bridge use `restart`

To Stop the bridge use `stop` (use restart to start it again)