Is there a max. Message Queue size?

[asander]

Hello,

I hope I have chosen the right forum ...

I have a MDB that receives data to process from an external application. Currently this works very well. In rare conditions there can be really a flood of messages, so there may be thousands of messages, waiting to be processed by the MDB.

My question now is: Is there a max size of the message queue? Is there a risk that messages might get lost, if there are much more messages than can be processed at the moment?

By the way: I am using JBoss 4.2

Thanks in advance for every answer

Andreas

[adrian.brock]

There's no theoretical maximum unless you configure one on the queue.

Of course there's a practical maximum, e.g. how many messages can it store in the database when your memory is full?