Hi, if you use failover URI like failover:(tcp://host1:61616, tcp://host2:61616) in your ActiveMQConnectionFactory, it will pick one of these brokers and try to connect. If it fails (or the connection is dropped later) it will try another one.
Cheers -- Dejan Bosanac - http://twitter.com/dejanb Open Source Integration - http://fusesource.com/ ActiveMQ in Action - http://www.manning.com/snyder/ Blog - http://www.nighttale.net On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:14 PM, farshad <teez_ho...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Dejan, > > Thanks for the reply. On the link you sent I read: > > "The Failover configuration syntax allows you to specify any number of > composite uris. The Failover transport randomly chooses one of the > composite > URI and attempts to establish a connection to it. If it does not succeed or > if it subsequently fails, a new connection is established to one of the > other uris in the list." > > So, if I have a network of 3 brokers specifed staticaly in my config file > and having also specified the failover:// protocol how does ActiveMQ fail > an > initial connection to one broker to another? Or does it? > > I use an ActiveMQConnectionFactory which needs to be connected to a broker > URL specifically. So, if that broker is down do I need to try a different > broker myself or does ActiveMQ's failover would connect to a different > broker? If so, how? > > Thanks, > Farshad > > > > Dejan Bosanac wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > check out failover transport > > http://activemq.apache.org/failover-transport-reference.html > > > > Cheers > > -- > > Dejan Bosanac - http://twitter.com/dejanb > > > > Open Source Integration - http://fusesource.com/ > > ActiveMQ in Action - http://www.manning.com/snyder/ > > Blog - http://www.nighttale.net > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:12 PM, farshad <teez_ho...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am new to ActiveMQ and am trying to use it in a distributed way. I > >> statically define my brokers as: > >> > >> > <networkConnectoruri="static://(tcp://host1:61616,tcp://host2:61616,tcp://host3:61616,tcp://host4:61616)"/> > >> > >> And > >> <transportConnector name="openwire" uri="tcp://localhost:61616" /> > >> > >> I connect to host1 and place some messages in a queue. I want to shut > >> down > >> host1 and be able to be a producer and consumer of that same queue > >> connecting to a different broker. Can I do that? What is the failover > >> machanism? > >> > >> Thank you in advance > >> > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> > http://www.nabble.com/Distributed-brokers-and-faiovers-tp25716906p25716906.html > >> Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > > > > > > ----- > > Dejan Bosanac > > > > Open Source Integration - http://fusesource.com/ > > ActiveMQ in Action - http://www.manning.com/snyder/ > > Blog - http://www.nighttale.net > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Distributed-brokers-and-faiovers-tp25716906p25755942.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
