Set the timeout for a message in ActiveMQ broker?

Question

I want to set the timeout period for the Acknowledge i.e. if the acknowledge is not received by the broker for the particular message from consumer within a time period then, the broker should resend the message to the consumer. Is it possible to set such settings in the broker???

Answer 1

Here are a couple links that explain how to solve this problem with ActiveMQ 5.9:

• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3394
• https://planet.jboss.org/post/coming_in_activemq_5_9_a_new_way_to_abort_slow_consumers

To summarize:

• if the consumer JVM dies, the JMS connection between broker and consumer will timeout, and any unacknowledged message will be re-scheduled for delivery
• if the JMS connection doesn't die but the consumer is stuck processing a message, AbortSlowAckConsumerStrategy will abort slow consumers when they reach the configured threshold of slowness, default is that a consumer that has not Ack'd a message for 30 seconds is slow