Thursday, July 2, 2009

Persistent JMS Topics using ActiveMQ and Spring

At work we noticed that a messaging application based on Topics was loosing pending messages after a restart of ActiveMQ. It turns out we were not using Durable Topic Subscribers. To configure these add this to your Spring Listener configuration:
<bean id="myListenerContainer"
class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
    <!-- never use concurrentConsumers with topics ! -->
    <property name="concurrentConsumers" value="1">
    <property name="connectionFactory" ref="jmsActiveMQFactory">
    <property name="destination" ref="myTopic">
    <property name="messageListener" ref="myMessageListener">
    <property name="sessionTransacted" value="true">
    <!-- Specify topic style publish/subscribe -->
    <property name="pubSubDomain" value="true">
    <!-- Will guaranty that we receive messages in queue after broker goes down -->
     <property name="subscriptionDurable" value="true">
     <property name="clientId" value="myApp">
     <property name="durableSubscriptionName" value="myApp">
</bean>


Both the durableSubscriptionName and clientId are required.

Also, you should ensure the JmsTemplate is configured to persistent delivery mode (this is the default):
<bean id="jmsActiveMQTemplate" class="org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate">
     <property name="connectionFactory" ref="jmsActiveMQFactory">

     <!-- Value = javax.jms.DeliveryMode.PERSISTENT -->
     <property name="deliveryMode" value="2">

     <!-- Value = javax.jms.Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE -->
     <property name="sessionAcknowledgeMode" value="2">

     <!-- Needs to be true for the deliveryMode to work -->
     <property name="explicitQosEnabled" value="true">
</bean>


To check if your Topic Subscribers are durable you can use the ActiveMQ web admin interface, your application should be listed under 'Subscribers'.

6 comments:

Javier said...

Excellent post, exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

Question: How can I check that the messages are gone once the subscribers picked up the messages?

Take care!

Javier.

Unknown said...

Great stuff, thanks so much! But out of curiosity how did you figure out what configuration to use for this among the hundreds of different spring properties and what not? Jeez..

Unknown said...

same stuff but using queues. is there any possibility to get persistent jms queues using activeMQ and spring? If it is possible give me your suggestions with one example.

Thanks-
vasu

Unknown said...

hi,
Can you give me any link where i can find java code for durable subscriber.

Thanks
prithvi

Unknown said...

hi,
Can you give me any link where i can find java code with spring for durable subscriber.

Unknown said...

Perfect, this is a good example for people who are looking for durable configuration.
thank you