Some good study material link about JMS/ActiveMQ(Chinese)

http://www.360doc.com/content/10/0913/14/2795334_53325069.shtml
 http://blog.csdn.net/wangdongsong1229/article/details/8219536

What I tried is,
1. cd $ACTIVE_MQ$/example/
2. ant producer
3. ant consumer

4. Then try the configuration by different values
    <property name="topic" value="false" />
    <property name="durable" value="true" />
in build.xml.

5. Check the status in MQ by http://localhost:8161/admin/.