Jboss-4.2.1 - Delay redelivery of failed MQ Messages

[chetan_aggarwal_in]

Hi,

I have an MDB listening to WS MQ. I am running JBoss-4.2.1 server. I send a JMS message to a process which responds back with JMS message. Response message is coming back even before my sender's transaction is commited. Due to which receiving MDB fails to handle incoming message.

I do not have any control over client process.

I want to introduce some delay in redelivery messages. For example, first time I get message, it fails, now when it is re-delivered to MDB, i want to introduce some delay of say 2 minutes.

Can I do it? What alternative could be tried?

Please suggest.

Thanks and Regards

Chetan

[jgkennedy]

Hi,

I am using JBOSS 4.3.2 and have exactly the same question.  I want to introduce a longer delay when a JMS message is redelivered.  I've spent some time on this and have found a few old resources and posts.  Like several years ago.

The best info seems to be here: http://docs.jboss.org/jbossmessaging/docs/usermanual-2.0.0.beta1/html/undelivered-messages.html

The snippet at the above link reads:

<address-setting match="jms.queue.exampleQueue">
        <redelivery-delay>5000</redelivery-delay>
</address-setting>

But where exactly would I place this config.  The docs are not clear.

In my situation, when I rollback from my MDB, the messages is redelivered 5 or 6 times in quick succession.  I like the redelivery count, but I need more time between redelivers.  Hasn't been too easy to find this information.

Thanks for any help.

Jim

[jgkennedy]

OK, I have this one solved (at least in my situation).  This is straightforward.

Here is a helpful snippet:

<mbean code="org.jboss.jms.server.destination.TopicService"
      name="jboss.messaging.destination:service=Topic,name=TopicWithOwnRedeliveryDelay"
      xmbean-dd="xmdesc/Topic-xmbean.xml">
      <depends optional-attribute-name="ServerPeer">
                  jboss.messaging:service=ServerPeer
      </depends>
      <depends>jboss.messaging:service=PostOffice</depends>
      <attribute name="RedeliveryDelay">5000</attribute>
   </mbean>

I found this info at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/jboss/jboss-eap-4.3/doc/messaging/JBoss_Messaging_User_Guide/html-single/index.html

Simply locate where you have defined your queues or topics.  These should be in the {configuration}/deploy/jms directory.  Add the following to your topic or queue:

<attribute name="RedeliveryDelay">5000</attribute>

This is 5 seconds.  It works.  I did test it.

Jim