Hi,

I modified a bit the JMSSenderBean from the doc to support JMSExpiration. I just added an extra argument which is the value of the time to live and do before sending the message: msg.setJMSExpiration(timeToLive);.

I made a simple test case which creates a queue, posts a message with a timeToLive of 5 seconds, makes the thread sleep and gets the message from the queue. When I check the content of the queue through the JMX Console after the message being posted, I see that the JMSExpiration properties of the message is set to 0 whereas I set it to 5 sec !?

I'm using jboss 3.2.4 with j2sdk 1.4.2_05.

What could be wrong ?

Code for the test

 // Create a queue
 JmsSenderLocal sender = JmsSenderUtil.getLocalHome().create();
 Queue queue = JmsQueueManagerUtil.getLocalHome().create().getQueue("dummyQueue_0");

 // Post a message
 sender.send(new TextMessageCreator("dummyMessage_0"), queue, null, 5000);

 // Sleep for at least 10 seconds
 sleep(10);

 // Get the message from the queue
 JmsReceiverLocal receiver = JmsReceiverUtil.getLocalHome().create();
 assertNull(receiver.receive(queue));

Sleep is a method calling thread.sleep()

The modified send method

 public void send(MessageCreator messageCreator, Queue queue, Date deliveryDate, long timeToLive) throws JMSException {
 if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
 logger.debug("Sending message [" + messageCreator + "] to queue [" + queue.getQueueName() + "]");
 }

 QueueConnection connection = null;
 QueueSession session = null;
 QueueSender sender = null;

 try {
 connection = openQueueConnection();
 session = connection.createQueueSession(false, QueueSession.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
 sender = session.createSender(queue);
 Message msg = messageCreator.getMessage(session);

 if (deliveryDate != null) {
 logger.debug("Message will be delivered on ["+deliveryDate+"]");
 msg.setLongProperty("JMS_JBOSS_SCHEDULED_DELIVERY", deliveryDate.getTime());
 }

 if (timeToLive >= 0) {
 msg.setJMSExpiration(System.currentTimeMillis() + timeToLive);
 }
 sender.send(msg);
 } finally {
 closeQueueSender(sender);
 closeSession(session);
 closeConnection(connection);
 }
 }

The message

SpyTextMessage {
Header {
 jmsDestination : QUEUE.dummyQueue_0
 jmsDeliveryMode : 2
 jmsExpiration : 0
 jmsPriority : 4
 jmsMessageID : ID:8-11083781808063
 jmsTimeStamp : 1108378180806
 jmsCorrelationID: null
 jmsReplyTo : null
 jmsType : null
 jmsRedelivered : false
 jmsProperties : {}
 jmsPropReadWrite: true
 msgReadOnly : false
 producerClientId: ID:8
}
Body {
 text :dummyMessage_0
}
}

If you need the log in trace mode just tell me and I will post it.

Regards,

Fred.