You must follow these prerequisites first

• grab the source code
• build it

You can then use the jetty maven plugin to run the war

cd restmq-war
mvn jetty:run-war

You can download the stand alone jar for RestMQ (using the ActiveMQ message broker from the following link

• restmq-web-standalone-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Once you have downloaded the jar to the current directory you should be able to run RestMQ by typing

java -jar restmq-web-standalone-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

You now should be able to browse RestMQ by navigating to the following URL

• http://localhost:8080/

From there you should be able to

• browse the available queues, topics
• create a new queue or topic
• send a message to a queue or topic
• browse the contents of a queue/topc

All of the operations on the web application are available via their RESTful API equivalents using the REST API. You can navigate the available REST API at this URL

• http://localhost:8080/api