Well I found the solution to my problem. The command line used to start ActiveMQ 5 is wrong. It looks like the wrapper configuration for ActiveMQ 4 was not updated to reflect the necessary changes for version 5. You need to change the following line in wrapper.conf from:
wrapper.app.parameter.1=org.apache.activemq.console.Main to wrapper.app.parameter.1=org.apache.activemq.console.Main start -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-5%3A-install-as-windows-service-does-not-work-tp14947392s2354p14988331.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.