Hi again: I looked futher into this issue.
It is strange that, something seems to be wrong with my camel route bundles. Initially, I was not able to replicate this issue on a different system. Then, I used my camel routes bundle that was built 2 weeks ago. And, now I see plenty of connections. I have not made any significant changes in the bundles or the routes since then. It was the service reference availability that I had changed from optional to mandatory. But that doesn't seem to have an effect on this behaviour. And now, with my newly built bundles, I have two different connections (as seen in the activemq console) Name Remote Address Active Slow ID:MDK-10884-1559899975517-0:2 tcp://127.0.0.1:10942 true false ID:MDK-10884-1559899975517-2:8 tcp://127.0.0.1:12448 true false And inside ID:MDK-10884-1559899975517-2:8, I see all my consumers there. And, few consumers have multiple sessions as well. I believe this is expected and optimal, right? It's good that I see a lot less connections, but now my confusion is, "why does it work?" . -- Sent from: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-User-f2341805.html