I have resolved my problems, at least for now. There were two of them. First, I did not install the stomp.py module correctly. Second, the Python stomp examples shipped with ActiveMQ were not correct.
Here is the listener that I got to work: #!/usr/bin/env python # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more # contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with # this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. # The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 # (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with # the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ import time import sys import os import stomp import random user = os.getenv("ACTIVEMQ_USER") or "admin" password = os.getenv("ACTIVEMQ_PASSWORD") or "password" host = os.getenv("ACTIVEMQ_HOST") or "localhost" port = os.getenv("ACTIVEMQ_PORT") or 61613 destination = sys.argv[1:2] or ["/topic/event"] destination = destination[0] class MyListener(object): def __init__(self, conn): self.conn = conn self.count = 0 self.start = time.time() def on_error(self, headers, message): print('received an error %s' % message) def on_message(self, headers, message): if message == "SHUTDOWN": diff = time.time() - self.start print("Received %s in %f seconds" % (self.count, diff)) conn.disconnect() sys.exit(0) else: if self.count==0: self.start = time.time() self.count += 1 if self.count % 1000 == 0: print("Received %s messages." % self.count) conn = stomp.Connection(host_and_ports = [(host, port)]) conn.set_listener('', MyListener(conn)) conn.start() conn.connect(login=user,passcode=password) conn.subscribe(id='stomp_listener', destination=destination, ack='auto') # conn.subscribe(destination=destination, ack='auto',headers={'seltype':'mandi-age-to-man','type':'textMessage','MessageNumber':random.randint(0,65535)}) print('sent message') print("Waiting for messages...") while 1: time.sleep(10) And here is the publisher I got to work: #!/usr/bin/env python # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more # contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with # this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. # The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 # (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with # the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ import time import sys import os import stomp user = os.getenv("ACTIVEMQ_USER") or "admin" password = os.getenv("ACTIVEMQ_PASSWORD") or "password" host = os.getenv("ACTIVEMQ_HOST") or "localhost" port = os.getenv("ACTIVEMQ_PORT") or 61613 # destination = sys.argv[1:2] or ["/topic/event"] # destination = destination[0] dest = "/topic/event" messages = 10000 data = "Hello World from Python" conn = stomp.Connection(host_and_ports = [(host, port)]) conn.start() conn.connect(login=user,passcode=password) for i in range(0, messages): conn.send(dest, data, persistent='false') # conn.send(data, destination=dest,headers={'seltype':'mandi-age-to-man','type':'textMessage'}) conn.send(dest, "SHUTDOWN", persistent='true') conn.disconnect() RobR -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Problems-installing-and-running-examples-on-Windows-7-tp4682400p4682433.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.