That looks more like a firewall issue to me, turn off your firewall to test that. Anyway, here is my configuration (Also with alternative JDBC) and a list of jars that cover everything you are ever likely to need from ActiveMQ (Note: I am using a tested 5.6 snapshot in production as it is very stable and has some significant bug fixes - Make sure you check for duplicate jars in [openejb]/lib):
activemq-core-5.6-SNAPSHOT.jar activemq-protobuf-1.1.jar activemq-ra-5.6-SNAPSHOT.jar aopalliance-1.0.jar commons-logging-1.1.1.jar commons-net-2.2.jar geronimo-j2ee-management_1.1_spec-1.0.1.jar kahadb-5.6-SNAPSHOT.jar org.osgi.core-4.1.0.jar slf4j-api-1.6.4.jar slf4j-log4j12-1.6.4.jar spring-aop-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar spring-asm-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar spring-beans-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar spring-context-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar spring-core-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar spring-expression-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar xbean-spring-3.9.jar [openejb]/conf/openejb.xml - Snippet [openejb]/conf/activemq.xml - Full -- View this message in context: http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/Internal-VM-ActiveMQ-Broker-tp4404421p4465484.html Sent from the OpenEJB User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.