Hi,

I have trouble configuring ActiveMQ's exclusive consumer feature for clustered consumers: I'd like messages in a queue to be delivered only to one consumer with auto-failover to another standy-by consumer. Problem is: both consumers still receive messages.

First I tried to configure the "consumer.exclusive" destination option into jms:consumer/destinationName element on both nodes:

<jms:consumer destinationName="queue/TEST?consumer.exclusive=true" ... />

That didn't work - both consumers still receive messages. I suspected the destination option didn't make it to ActiveMQ, so a custom destination resolver was deployed:

public class JmsDestinationResolver implements DestinationResolver {

public Destination resolveDestinationName(Session session, String destinationName, boolean pubSubDomain) throws JMSException {

return session.createQueue(destinationName + "?consumer.exclusive=true");

}

}

I checked in the debugger that the resolver class was actually used. But still both consumers receive messages

Any ideas? Has someone used that feature already in a SM3 setup? Can exclusive consumer feature work at all in our setup?

Cheers!

Sebastian

(Setup is: Service Mix 3.4.0.4 and ActiveMQ 5.3.0 deployed in JBossAS 5.1.0 GA, cluster with two machines, ActiveMQ broker configured in hot-standby mode)

Edited by: sbrandt on Apr 13, 2011 3:04 PM

Edited by: sbrandt on Apr 13, 2011 3:07 PM