Yah so virtual topics can behave like queues under the covers. But not sure I follow you here:
Failover is good for external > clients, which will connect to the surviving broker. > > Maybe because I'm not getting exactly what these "messages from inside the server" are. Sounds like you want a failover scenario where the "external client" is pulling the lost messages and replaying them to the alive server? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/receiving-messages-from-a-topic-as-if-it-was-a-queue-without-being-subscriber-tp4660660.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- *Christian Posta* http://www.christianposta.com/blog twitter: @christianposta