Usability and simplicity are core design principles with HornetQ.

We hope that our documentation is clear and easy to understand and structured in a task driven way, not as a long list of reference parameters. We're sure it's not perfect yet either but it will get even better over time.

We also ship HornetQ with over 65 ready-to-run examples straight out of the box. So you can quickly get to grips with working with HornetQ using real working examples.

(Take a look at the quick start guide for exact instructions on how to get up and running in five minutes or less)

In short, basically you just need to:

1. Download HornetQ
2. Unzip HornetQ
   
3. Go to examples/jms/queue
4. Run "./build.sh" (or "build.bat" if you are using Windows)
5. This starts a server and a client which sends/receive on a JMS Queue

Any questions, or problems then ping us on irc (irc://freenode.net:6667/hornetq) or drop a message at the user forums.

That's it.