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List:       activemq-users
Subject:    Re: Monitoring activemq connection
From:       Gary Tully <gary.tully () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-30 11:54:42
Message-ID: 3a73c17c0906300454t6f4e3eb8x84dfbc13d8539864 () mail ! gmail ! com
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you may want to configure an inactivityTimeout to ensure that a broker
network is promptly recognised: see:
http://activemq.apache.org/configuring-wire-formats.html

2009/6/30 Tim Sparg <timothy.sparg@corefreight.com>

>
> hi all
>
> We have an application that receives a lot more messages than it sends. It
> sends an appropriate response to every message that it receives, but never
> initiates a 'conversation' (for lack of a better term)
>
> Our problem is that we have very poor lines between the applications that
> are running ActiveMQ, so the connection may go down completely, drop
> packets
> etc etc...
>
> What then happens is that the application initiating the conversation will
> send a message to the appropriate queue, and the receiving app never picks
> it up.
>
> I was looking at the TransportListener class, which looks quite promising
> with the onException,transportInterrupted() and transportResumed() methods,
> but when i pull out my network cable no error is thrown or methods entered.
> My presumption is that these will only be entered/thrown if the application
> is sending a message.
>
> I also tried getting the TransportChannel and then using the isConnected()
> method on there, but when i pull my network cable out the method still
> returns true.
>
> I'm currently thinking of making the application attempt a reconnection
> after a specified time of inactivity,
> thus if the connection is down/not functioning then an exception can be
> thrown and the problem managed from there.
> However this seems like a fairly shoddy solution, and i'm hoping that
> somebody is aware of a better way of checking that the connection is alive.
>
> thanks
> Tim
>
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