We are using ActiveMQ 5.5.1 as an embedded broker in our Spring 3.1.0 application. We have enabled message redelivery. From time to time, we see messages that are sent to the queue, but are never delivered, or are delivered hours later. We've gone through the posts on using Spring's JMS Template with ActiveMQ and think we have the proper settings.
Our current theory is that perhaps when messages throw a RuntimeException, and get re-enqueued for later delivery, the consumers are not released and the new messages can't be delivered. However, we can't really gather much evidence to support this. I'm including the configuration that we are using, in the hopes that someone might spot something that we have got wrong. <amq:broker id="jmsBroker" useJmx="true" persistent="true" brokerName="localhost" dataDirectory="${catalina.home}/data/intl2/jms" start="true"> <amq:destinationPolicy> <amq:policyMap> <amq:policyEntries> <amq:policyEntry topic=">" producerFlowControl="false" memoryLimit="1mb" useCache="false"> <amq:pendingSubscriberPolicy> <amq:vmCursor /> </amq:pendingSubscriberPolicy> </amq:policyEntry> <!-- Prefetch : http://activemq.apache.org/what-is-the-prefetch-limit-for.html Flow control: http://activemq.apache.org/producer-flow-control.html Stuck messages: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Messages-stuck-in-queue-td3244342.html https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-2009 --> <amq:policyEntry queue=">" producerFlowControl="false" memoryLimit="1mb" useCache="false" queuePrefetch="1"> <!-- Use VM cursor for better latency For more information, see: http://activemq.apache.org/message-cursors.html <pendingQueuePolicy> <vmQueueCursor/> </pendingQueuePolicy> --> </amq:policyEntry> </amq:policyEntries> </amq:policyMap> </amq:destinationPolicy> <amq:managementContext> <amq:managementContext createConnector="false" /> </amq:managementContext> <amq:persistenceAdapter> <amq:kahaDB directory="${catalina.home}/data/intl2/jms/kahadb" checkForCorruptJournalFiles="true" checksumJournalFiles="true" forceRecoverIndex="true" /> </amq:persistenceAdapter> </amq:broker> <!-- <bean id="jmsConnectionFactory" class="org.apache.activemq.pool.PooledConnectionFactory" destroy-method="stop"> --> <bean id="jmsConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jms.connection.CachingConnectionFactory"> <property name="targetConnectionFactory"> <bean class="org.apache.activemq.spring.ActiveMQConnectionFactory"> <property name="brokerURL" value="vm://localhost" /> <property name="redeliveryPolicy"> <bean class="org.apache.activemq.RedeliveryPolicy"> <property name="maximumRedeliveries" value="15" /> <property name="initialRedeliveryDelay" value="10800000" /> <property name="redeliveryDelay" value="10800000" /> </bean> </property> </bean> </property> </bean> <bean id="eventServiceJmsTemplate" class="org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate"> <property name="connectionFactory" ref="jmsConnectionFactory" /> <property name="defaultDestination" ref="destination" /> <property name="pubSubDomain" value="false" /> <property name="deliveryPersistent" value="true" /> </bean> <bean id="destination" class="org.apache.activemq.command.ActiveMQQueue"> <property name="physicalName" value="asynchQueue" /> </bean> <bean id="destinationResolver" class="org.springframework.jms.support.destination.BeanFactoryDestinationResolver" /> <!-- http://activemq.apache.org/message-redelivery-and-dlq-handling.html Tracing through Spring's code, it seems that it will not roll back the transaction unless we set acknowledge to "transacted" I tested it on integ, messages are not being redelivered with "auto", but they are in "transacted" mode Cache none: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-2009 --> <jms:listener-container connection-factory="jmsConnectionFactory" acknowledge="transacted" cache="none" concurrency="5" destination-resolver="destinationResolver"> <jms:listener destination="destination" ref="asynchronousEventExecutor" /> </jms:listener-container> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth DeLong | Director of Architecture, Chief Software Architect BabyCenter o: 415.344.7616 ken.del...@babycenter.com<mailto:ken.del...@babycenter.com> Twitter: kenwdelong AIM: kenwdelong babycenter.com<http://babycenter.com/> like BabyCenter on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/BabyCenter>