I've read this about DLQ: http://activemq.apache.org/message-redelivery-and-dlq-handling.html
But when I try to use it as in the example (queue=">") ActiveMQ doesn't start (5.5.1, although similar behaviour with 5.6.0). If I take the attached activemq.xml and use it as is, I get a working ActiveMQ. If I uncomment the part in the middle about deadLetterStrategy, ActiveMQ won't start. Can anybody spot where I've gone wrong? These are the last two lines in the (short) log: 2012-05-28 23:06:40,700 | DEBUG | Found XML schema [http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd] in classpath: org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-2.0.xsd | org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.PluggableSchemaResolver | main 2012-05-28 23:06:40,793 | DEBUG | Found XML schema [http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd] in classpath: activemq.xsd | org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.PluggableSchemaResolver | main (The above is a cut-down example. In the end I want anything to have a DLQ because I want to be able to add new queues via the ldap backend without restarting ActiveMQ to add new DLQ configs. I removed ldap and other bits from the example to attempt to cut it down.)
activemq.xml
Description: XML document
