We need to allow message redelivery to multiple consumers of the same queue. The consumers stop and restart/recover the session when they need. Unacknowledged messages need to be consumed by any consumer. We have set the broker up according to the instructions in the page http://activemq.apache.org/message-redelivery-and-dlq-handling.html
Here is an excerpt from the actual config file: <plugins> <redeliveryPlugin fallbackToDeadLetter="false" sendToDlqIfMaxRetriesExceeded="true"> <redeliveryPolicyMap> <redeliveryPolicyMap> <redeliveryPolicyEntries> <!-- a destination specific policy --> <redeliveryPolicy queue="Queue" maximumRedeliveries="3" redeliveryDelay="10000" /> </redeliveryPolicyEntries> <!-- the fallback policy for all other destinations --> <defaultEntry> <redeliveryPolicy maximumRedeliveries="-1" initialRedeliveryDelay="5000" redeliveryDelay="10000" /> </defaultEntry> </redeliveryPolicyMap> </redeliveryPolicyMap> </redeliveryPlugin> </plugins> We can see it working, in that the messages now are delivered to two consumers currently running but the messages always end up on the Dead Letter Queue after a few retries. What we want is to ensure that the messages stay on the queue forever until they are consumed and acknowledged. Can anyone tell me how to do this, thanks?