<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><p>One option is to run your broker in the same JVM as your application; see <link><page ri:content-title="How To Unit Test JMS Code"></page></link>.</p><p>Or you can try uncommenting ACTIVEMQ_DEBUG_OPTS in your activemq start script (bin/activemq or bin\activemq.bat) and start remote debugging in your IDE.</p><p>For IDEA, see this article <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://www.javaranch.com/journal/200408/DebuggingServer-sideCode.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.javaranch.com/journal/200408/DebuggingServer-sideCode.html</a></p></div>