Hi to everybody,

I'm Ivan and I work for an IT company in healthcare.

We are experiencing a problem using hornetQ: sometimes, when a message causes a transaction rollback due to a system exception, the redelivery policy seems not working properly and the message is stuck in the queue.

Our redelivery policy is to retry a message delivery every 10secs for 3 times, and then move it in DLQ.

Here the configuration taken from hornetq-configuration.xml:

     <address-setting match="#">

           <dead-letter-address>jms.queue.DLQ</dead-letter-address>

           <expiry-address>jms.queue.ExpiryQueue</expiry-address>

           <redelivery-delay>10000</redelivery-delay>

           <max-delivery-attempts>3</max-delivery-attempts>

           <max-size-bytes>52428800</max-size-bytes>

           <page-size-bytes>10485760</page-size-bytes>

           <message-counter-history-day-limit>10</message-counter-history-day-limit>

           <address-full-policy>PAGE</address-full-policy>

        </address-setting>

Following is what sometimes happens:

- a RuntimeException (this is to say, a system exception) is thrown while message processing;

- the transaction rollbacks;

- the message is stuck in the queue and it is not redelivered;

The message processing is made by a stateless EJB called from a MDB using reflection, here is the code of the MDB:

@Override

          public void onMessage(Message message)

          {

                      try {

                     mdb.invoke(target, message, connectionFactory);

            }

           catch (Throwable th) {

           context.setRollbackOnly();

           mdb.logError(th, "error on DocumentMessageReceiverImpl_ProcessDocumentMessageMDB");

            }

          }

Our configuration is:

OS:

linux

Kernel:

2.6.32-100.26.2.el5

jboss:

6.0.0 final

JDK:

jdk1.6.0_31

hornetQ:

2.1.2.Final

Do you know if it is a known bug? If so, it has been fixed in a subsequent version?

Since we can't upgrade the version, do you know if there is a work around for hornetQ 2.1.2?

Let me know if you need more infos.

Thank to all!!

Bye,

Ivan