Pragmatically set up JMS retry strategy in JBoss

June 02, 2005

Pragmatically set up JMS retry strategy in JBoss

JBoss uses so called "Dead Letter Queue" to handle undeliverable JMS message. It can be configured with "conf/standardjboss.xml".

In times though, you may want finer control over JMS retry strategy. By setting JBoss specific properties before sending message, you can pragmatically override how undeliverable JMS message is handled.

JMS_JBOSS_SCHEDULED_DELIVERY : scheduled time for message delivery
JMS_JBOSS_REDELIVERY_DELAY : delay between retry in milli-seconds
JMS_JBOSS_REDELIVERY_COUNT : count of retry
JMS_JBOSS_REDELIVERY_LIMIT : max number of retry attempt

TextMessage outMessage= topicSession.createTextMessage(outString);
            
outMessage.setLongProperty("JMS_JBOSS_REDELIVERY_DELAY", 10000);

outMessage.setLongProperty("JMS_JBOSS_SCHEDULED_DELIVERY", 
    deliveryDate.getTime());

topicPublisher.publish(outMessage);