Consistent Issue with ActiveMQ Event Service with CF2023 Upgrade

Hello,

We are upgrading several machines from CF2021 to CF2023 and are seeing a consistent issue with each upgrade as we go in and try to turn on our ActiveMQ Gateway Instances.  The instances won't start and they are throwing what appear to be java JMS errors in the exception logs.  For instance:

"Error","Thread-30","05/14/25","09:26:32","","Failed to start gateway: null"
"Error","Thread-30","05/14/25","09:26:32","","Error starting gateway <Name of Gateway Instance>: null"
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.putVal(ConcurrentHashMap.java:1011)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.put(ConcurrentHashMap.java:1006)
at java.base/java.util.Properties.put(Properties.java:1301)
at java.base/java.util.Properties.setProperty(Properties.java:229)
at examples.ActiveMQ.JMSConsumer.start(JMSConsumer.java:58)
at examples.ActiveMQ.JMSGateway.startGateway(JMSGateway.java:47)
at coldfusion.eventgateway.GenericGateway.start(GenericGateway.java:118)
at coldfusion.eventgateway.impl.EventServiceImpl$GatewayStarter.run(EventServiceImpl.java:1456)

AND (another example):

"Error","Thread-22","05/14/25","08:41:03","","Failed to start gateway: Unexpected failure."
"Error","Thread-22","05/14/25","08:41:03","","Error starting gateway <Name of Gateway Instance>: Unexpected failure."
javax.jms.JMSException: Unexpected failure.
at org.apache.activemq.util.JMSExceptionSupport.create(JMSExceptionSupport.java:91)
at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.syncSendPacket(ActiveMQConnection.java:1483)
at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.ensureConnectionInfoSent(ActiveMQConnection.java:1548)
at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.start(ActiveMQConnection.java:568)
at examples.ActiveMQ.JMSConsumer.start(JMSConsumer.java:110)
at examples.ActiveMQ.JMSGateway.startGateway(JMSGateway.java:47)
at coldfusion.eventgateway.GenericGateway.start(GenericGateway.java:118)
at coldfusion.eventgateway.impl.EventServiceImpl$GatewayStarter.run(EventServiceImpl.java:1456)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unexpected failure.
at org.apache.activemq.transport.failover.FailoverTransport.oneway(FailoverTransport.java:645)
at org.apache.activemq.transport.MutexTransport.oneway(MutexTransport.java:68)
at org.apache.activemq.transport.ResponseCorrelator.asyncRequest(ResponseCorrelator.java:81)
at org.apache.activemq.transport.ResponseCorrelator.request(ResponseCorrelator.java:86)
at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.syncSendPacket(ActiveMQConnection.java:1454)
... 6 more

We have tried many things, including dropping the activeMQ and artemis .jar files into the ...\wwwroot\WEB-INF\lib\ folder, resetting the Felix Cache, and multiple restarts.  We aren't having much luck.  It is odd that this seems to be a consistent issue across all of the machines that we have updated.

I know this is kind of a CF "edge case" and I don't see a lot of people making use of the ActiveMQ messaging but wanted to see if anyone else may have experienced this during an upgrade.

Thank you.