JMS Newbie: No API to delete messages from queue?

[astehman]

It doesn't appear that any delete, dequeue, or remove methods exist anywhere to explictly remove messages from queues.

So, is the easiest thing to do to create a queue specifically for consuming messages and doing nothing with them, essentially deleting them? And whenever one wishes to delete a message, move it to this 'delete' queue?

Thanks so much!

--alexx

[genman]

There is no non-vendor specific way. Take a look at the JMX console, look for your queue. Click on "removeAllMessages", you can do this via JMX. Isn't this a FAQ?

[astehman]

Well, no FAQ entry to delete 1 spec. message, based on message id. I thought it would be handy to browse a queue (since you can) and then based on contents, delete a message based on its ID. But it seems that if I want to do that, I'd have to actually create an MDB to persist the msgs on this queue elsewhere (like a DB) if I'd like to browse AND 1) resubmit 2) edit or 3) delete them from the system.

I'm fairly new to JMS, so if there is a better way to do this I'd be very open to sugg's.

Thanks!

--alexx

[genman]

JMS is not designed to be good deleting messages from within a Queue. You can use a message selector, but it's not very high performance within JBoss. If in-queue removal is important, you should use a different architecture.