Hi, it will stay until it's consumed or it expires.
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 Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:56 AM, radha_mit <radhakrishn...@ivycomptech.com>wrote: > > Hi, > > In addition, as every message can potentially have many consumers, a > message > cannot be deleted from the store until it has been delivered to every > interested > > THis is the line given in chapter 4 of ActiveMQ in Action book for topic. > > Lets assume that , we have 4 subscribers listening to a durable topic. out > of them, three are live at that moment and 1 subscriber is down. A message > comes to the durable topic and the 3 live subscribers get them. > > Now, after starting the 4th one, will the 4th one also get the message. > If yes, till what time will the message will be there in the topic ? > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-Durable-Topics---Persistent-Messages-tp28678604p28678604.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
