Thanks to Sonatype OSS repositories, ElasticMQ version 0.6.1 is now synced to central. All of the artifacts, except the standalone server (which depends on Ostrich, which isn’t available in the central repo) are synchronized. The procedure turned out to be pretty straighforward, and after a couple of days since the initial request the artifacts are there: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/elasticmq/

Hence now it is even easier to use ElasticMQ to test your SQS application. Just follow the README and add the following dependencies to your project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticmq</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticmq-core_2.9.1</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticmq</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticmq-rest-sqs_2.9.1</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.1</version>
</dependency>

Adam