Yes - ActiveMQ supports destination hierarchies - a '.' dot notation denotes an element in the name. To extend your example - say you had models too - to subscribe to all Ford cars - you would use '>'. e.g. car.ford.> You can use the '*' to subscribe to everything for So to subscribe to cars - you would subscribe to the topic car.> To subscribe to all cars of type mondeo - you would subscribe to car.*.modeo - or *.*.mondeo
Hope that makes sense ? On 14 Apr 2010, at 17:35, carlosfocker wrote: > > Does ActiveMQ allow for topics to have parent topics? For example, a parent > topic Car might have two child topics called Ford and Nissan. If a > publisher publishes a message to the Car topic, both Ford and Nissan > subscribers would receive the message. If a message is published to the > Nissan topic, only Nissan topic subscribers would receive the message. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Topic-Inheritance-tp28245081p28245081.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
