As was noted in the answers to your StackOverflow question, 5.x does support retroactive consumption and Artemis does not.
Just to make sure, you would only need a new consumer to have access to the most recent message, not any before it, right? If you need access to the full recent history of the destination, you'd need to look at the journal-based messaging middleware products: Kafka/Kinesis/RocketMQ/Pulsar/etc. Tim On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 6:19 AM mschmeiser <mschmei...@sasktel.net> wrote: > The answer is pointing me in the direction of durable subscriptions. > However, > to my knowledge, durable subscriptions only ensure that topics published > while a subscriber is down are received when it comes back up. Durable > subscriptions don't ensure that a late-joiner receives the latest copy of a > topic the first time it subscribes. Does ActiveMQ (Artemis or 5.X) support > this case? > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-User-f2341805.html >