ActiveMQ Broker Factory Could not find factory class for failover

Question

I am getting this error when trying to create a ActiveMQ broker with the BrokerFactory:

java.io.IOException: Could not load failover factory:java.io.IOException: Could not find factory class for resource: META-INF/services/org/apache/activemq/broker/failover
    at org.apache.activemq.util.IOExceptionSupport.create(IOExceptionSupport.java:27)
    at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFactory.createBrokerFactoryHandler(BrokerFactory.java:43)
    at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFactory.createBroker(BrokerFactory.java:70)
    at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFactory.createBroker(BrokerFactory.java:54)
    at ...
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Could not find factory class for resource: META-INF/services/org/apache/activemq/broker/failover
    at org.apache.activemq.util.FactoryFinder$StandaloneObjectFactory.loadProperties(FactoryFinder.java:96)
    at org.apache.activemq.util.FactoryFinder$StandaloneObjectFactory.create(FactoryFinder.java:58)
    at org.apache.activemq.util.FactoryFinder.newInstance(FactoryFinder.java:146)
    at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFactory.createBrokerFactoryHandler(BrokerFactory.java:41)
    ... 5 more

It seems like pathing error or something similar, I just cant figure out the root cause.

This is the code causing it:

URI brokerUri = new URI(bean.getBrokerConfigUrl());
broker = BrokerFactory.createBroker(brokerUri);

Here is the url I am calling:

failover:(tcp://internalUrl.net:port#,tcp://internalUrl.net:port#)?randomize=false&timeout=30000&jms.redeliveryPolicy.maximumRedeliveries=-1&jms.prefetchPolicy.all=0

So is this likely a pathing error? Am I not including a required jar? Is the url not formatted properly? I'm lost here.

Edit: Added bounty

Answer 1

This isn't a classpath or jar issue. According to the active MQ documentation the BrokerFactory only supports URIs for xbean, broker or properties and does not support a failover URI.

The following two documents should give you more information on setting up and configuring a broker factory.

http://activemq.apache.org/broker-configuration-uri.html

http://activemq.apache.org/how-do-i-embed-a-broker-inside-a-connection.html