Hi, did you check failover transport
http://activemq.apache.org/failover-transport-reference.html Cheers -- Dejan Bosanac ----------------- FuseSource - The experts in open source integration and messaging. Email: dej...@fusesource.com Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/dejanb ActiveMQ in Action - http://www.manning.com/snyder/ Blog - http://www.nighttale.net On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:29 PM, logosdev <logos...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, for the purposes of this question I am using activemq 5.3.1, > non-persistent > > I would like to use the BrokerService in the normal way as a bridge between > a local queue and a remote destination. The trick is that the remote > destination may or may not be up at the time the BrokerService starts. > Currently I have no trouble starting the broker when the destination is > reachable, but as you might expect things blow up otherwise. > > Note that I am not talking about a connection that intermittently drops > after the initial startup - activemq seems to handle that. I am talking > about an unreachable destination at startup. > > Ideally, I'd like the BrokerService to automatically try to reconnect (at > reasonable intervals), and to queue up messages until the connection can be > made. If this isn't possible, I'm happy to code around it - I'd just like > some advice on what's considered the proper approach. > > How would you folks handle this? > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/broker-config-if-destination-may-be-down-tp3086163p3086163.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >