Sure they can. Messages stays on the broker where they are produced until consumer arrives, when they are delivered to it.
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 27, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Petrucci Andreas <petrucci_2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > thanks for the reply, i'm aware of the network-of-brokers solution but i > doubt if 2 distinct producers can produce messages for the SAME queue at 2 > different brokers of the network. Yes, in my setup i really need multiple > brokers but i think that what i ask for (i think that it) cannot be provided > by a network of brokers . > >> To: petrucci_2...@hotmail.com; users@activemq.apache.org >> From: dirk.froeh...@email.de >> Subject: Re: Distributed ActiveMQ Brokers >> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:31:03 +0100 >> >> Afternoon, >> >> As far as I understand your use case, you can set up a so called network of >> brokers to achieve this. >> A NWOB is a collection of brokers that know about each other. Destinations >> are distributed on the participating nodes as far as they're involved. >> Clients can connect to any of the nodes to produce messages. The same >> applies for consumption, since messages are forwarded to one of the nodes >> that has a subscriber for a particular destination. >> >> But: You wrote about multiple brokers within one network. You should double >> check if you really need multiple brokers, since the main reason for a NWOB >> would be to scale horizontally (for queues) or to distribute destinations >> over multiple networks. Unless you really have significant traffic, one node >> can handle quite a lot of queue messages (several k/s, depending on >> infrastructure and persistence). >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> >> Dirk Fröhner >> Sent from one of my smartphones >> >> >> ----- Reply message ----- >> From: "Petrucci Andreas" <petrucci_2...@hotmail.com> >> Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 12:50 >> Subject: Distributed ActiveMQ Brokers >> To: <users@activemq.apache.org> >> >> >> Hello there, all i want ot ask is there there is a specific setup of >> activemq brokers such that we will have multiple brokers in our network that >> can serve clients that are producing (just producing) messages for one ( >> just one) queue. As far as i can see , there is no way to achieve that. Am I >> right? Any ideas? :) >> >> thnks in advance, >> Petrucci >> >