A charset is used when converting the message body String to a byte[] to send to AMQP. For backwards compatibility, the appender uses the system charset by default, but now allows the charset name to be specified in the log4j configuration... log4j.appender.amqp.charset=UTF-8
Many of the "integration" tests here require a running RabbitMQ server - they will be skipped if the broker is not detected.
If RabbitMQ is not installed on your system, refer to the instructions for your particular OS here: [http://www.rabbitmq.com/install.html]
Start the server. For example, and a *nix-based system where RabbitMQ has been
installed within /opt/rabbitmq, issue the following command:
> sudo /opt/rabbitmq/sbin/rabbitmq-server start