One at a Time Processing for Oracle SOA JMS Queue - oracle

We have a requirement in where we need to send only one message at a time to a backend process. The call back of this process takes around an hour, only after the call back can we send another request to the process.
I am trying to achieve this by using a manager bpel process that will hold the messages first if there is already something being processed in the backend, and then send it once it realizes that the backend is free. This approach will work, but our architect wants a cleaner solution. He suggested using JMS queues. The idea is for the jms queue to messages to be read by a amanger one at a time, only moving on to the next one once we receive the callback from the backend and we know that the composite and bpel instance is finished. I've been scouring the internet for weeks, but I couldn't find a working jms based solution for my requirement.
I've tried the suggestions for this link but turning on unit of order and acknowledgement properties does nothing.

Try this approach!!
Use a event driven bpel process.
Use a database flag as your next trigger. (flag is TRUE)
jms Adapter receives first message from the queue. Here use a delay in the adapter since you are expecting the bpel to be long running. use below setting.
<binding.jca config="MyServiceInboundQueue_jms.jca">
<property name="minimumDelayBetweenMessages">10000</property>
<property name="singleton">true</property>
</binding.jca>
if flag == TRUE in the db causes the db adapter to proceed with the bpel process,
else skip the bpel.
mark flag==FALSE
call the backend system
callback is received after an hour.
set flag==TRUE

Hi Jonar,
At my company we always use JMS queues for Asynchronous messaging. You could do with a delay timer build in your composite set to 1 hour and 15 minutes for example, and it will work most of the time, but its hella messy. The whole idea is for any asynchronous process to kick off when a message is put upon its queue target (specified by the JMS queue). The JMS adapter in the composite of your project will pick up the message from the queue when it is free to process the queue. The goal for you would be to put the message on the queue and pick it up from it using the adapter. It will know which message to pick up because you specify which queues it listens to in the adapter.
The following blog post by John-Brown Evans eplains the whole process from step one. It might be a bit tedious, but I found it very helpful. Its using SOa Suite 11g instead of the nowadays more commonly used 12c, but its fundamentals remain the same.
Awesome JMS queue tutorial
I hope this works for you!
Cheers,
Jesper

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Move messages from one IBM MQ Queue to a different MQ Queue based on the expiry(time to live)

I have a application where I am using IBM MQ in a Pseudo-Synchronous way. I have request Q and Response Q. This will called through service. Now there is a time out period for my service to show the response.
But the actual response can be pushed to the response Q after the timeout also. Now I want to move such all delayed messages(timed out) to a separate message Q, such that they can be consumed by a different process.
Is this is possible through setting by time to live? Is any approach available in IBM MQ for such movement.
Please refer below image for the scenario.
Don't use time to live because the message will expire and be deleted - unless that is what you want. From your description/picture, it sounds like you want another application to process late responses.
There is nothing in MQ that will move messages older then "x" seconds/minutes to another queue. You will need to write a program to do that. If you write a program, make sure you do the move under a unit of work.
There are several commercial programs that can do it: (1) GUI program: MQ Visual Edit and (2) Command Line (shell): MQ Batch Toolkit.

Custom polling vs JMS MessageListener

Sorry, if it is a duplicate question.
I have a legacy web application which uses Queues (yes. normal Java Queue) and custom polling (every 500ms). A REST web service (/message) will be called, which will return the message if any otherwise empty string.
My need: If any message is available in Queue, in Real-Time, the client should get the message. So I can save 500ms.
Is there any advantage to moving to JMS from current approach? From this link JMS MessageConsumer's messageListener makes push or pull? it seems, MessageListener (process is asynchronous) uses polling which is no different from current approach.
If it is vendor based, how HornetQ/ActiveMQ supports MessageListener?
EDIT:
The queue is used for integration of two systems. A web app & standlone java program.
Either receive or a MessageListener will be asynchronous and will be called as soon as you receive a message.
you could control the pre-fetch size of your client.
Now, if all you need is to avoid the delay of poling every 500 ms, using a Queue system may be an overkill? It's perfect fine to use java.util.Queue (or any other subclass).
If all you need is to block until an element of a java.util.Queue is available, and you don't need distributed messaging, persistence or anything like you could simply using BlockingDequeue and your thread would unblock as soon as you have a message..
Look at this:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/BlockingDeque.html
The Async MessageListener is implemented using a push based model. In ActiveMQ the broker sends a number of messages to the client based in it's set prefetch value so that messages are ready for consumption. Whether or not this helps with your particular use case is a question you need to answer for yourself.

Scheduling a MDB

I'm looking for a way to schedule a MDB. My requirement is that the MDB is set to feed a system from the company. This system goes out for maintenance every night, but the other systems don't know about it and may keep trying to feed it. A persistent queue is great in the way that my messages could be pilled until system goes back online.
How could I manage that? I've run into that already: schedule a message driven bean to access a queue during certain times? but it uses java 7, and worst, message is lost if the server restarts (messages is taken out of the JMS Queue and kept in memory until timer process it).
Another use of this would be to implement a "retry" queue. In case of error I want to retry processing my message, but not immediately, after a certain amount time only.
Any ideas to keep my MDB offline for a certain amount of time?
Most versions of JBoss publish a management MBean that allows you to stop delivery on a MDB.
If you're using EJB3, however, they auto-start, so you will need to register a startup class to stop starting MDBs at boot time if boots occur in your MDB's blackout period. Once past that snafu, you can schedule a simple quartz job to start and stop the MDBs according to your delivery windows.
Well, it looks like there is no way to pause a MDB in a generic way. The best solution is, like most people will answer, to use the DLQ (or DMQ).
Now, if I want to introduce a timer on a message, I set the time to live of the producer to the amount of time I want the message to wait. Then I send it to a normal queue, lets say waitingQueue which has no consumer. After expiration, the message is sent to default destination (mq.sys.dmq for Glassfish MQ, make sure to create a jms resource with mq.sys.dmq as imqDestinationName). I have a MDB listening to the error queue and responsible of sending the message again. Now, if I want to "close" a queue for some time, when a message arrives in the queue, I check if current time is allowed or not. Just set the time to live to the amount of time before next opening hours and send it to waitingQueue.
The reason I didn't use it since the beginning is that I fell into a few pitfalls. Here are a few useful properties to set when using DMQ with Glassfish 3.1.1 and its embedded MQ.
imq.message.expiration.interval=1 that's for the poll interval on each queue before sending timed out messages to the DMQ. Default is 60 seconds. If like me you want to test your application with little latency, this is what you need.

How to get a return value from a send.Message and include the returned value as part of second message in MSMQ?

I'm pretty new to MSMQ 4.0. I got stuck with below scenario;
Service A takes User Details and Returns an User ID.
Then Service B takes Billing detials with User ID.
Now I have to Queue these steps. I'm planning to use Transaction Queue.
Could some one please help me with
1)Get the ID from first message and include it in the second message.
2)If at least one step failed I have to rollback(transaction Queue does it for me) retry or 5 times and if it still failed then move it to VerifyAdminQueue for verification by Admin.I dont like using DeadLetter Queue etc.,
Thanks in advance.
Services built with MSMQ queues are truly one-way. This means that there is no built in concept of a response. There are many ways you can implement a request-response communication pattern using MSMQ but with all of them you will need to construct and send the response back to the caller yourself.
With one way actions, rollback is very simple, and indeed MSMQ will rollback any failed steps in the transmission of a message. More complex operations such as request-response however lack any concept of a transaction in MSMQ and so any rollback across more than one message transmission steps will require you to write compensatory code.

JMS p2p failover pattern in order to guarantee delivery

Im a web developer ended up in some j2ee development (newbie). I sincerely need this theory confirmed.
I been given the privilege to deliver a message from our system (producer) to the SOA Enterprice service bus (consumer) when the user hits the save button. The information can not be missed or not delivered and the delivery order must be kept.
Environment:
Jboss eap 5.1 as the producer.
JNDI server is the ESB (maybe standard).
Jboss ESB as the consumer.
My weapon of choice is JMS, p2p, due to the asynchronous nature.
When the producer is abut to send the message some problems can occur:
ESB is down causing JNDI exception
Queue manager is for some reason not awake or wrongly configured. This should cause some JMS exception.
Network hickup, causing a JMS error.
So Im looking for some failover pattern. Here is my suggestion:
Add a internal JMS queue to which the message is initially added.
Add a MDB that listen to the internal queue and tries to send it to the target queue (ESB).
If failing in any way log fatal and send email to cool support people.
This should generate a reliable pattern where a message remains on the internal que until processed by the MDB.
Please advice.
Best Regards
ds
Well a 'temporary' queue is not a totally bad idea, but during the time from moving data from one queue to putting it on another you'll have a potential window of risk. Even though that window is close to nothing, what would happen if you got some failure right there and then? -You'd have to put the message back on the queue (and there you'd get into the problem with getting it in the correct order - nasty stuff!) or hold on to it in some way until you put it the other queue (which in turn can be cumbersome if you'd e g get into some failure-situaton.
A more stable solution would be to put data in a db with a queue-order column. You can then select your data in the correct order, send it to the new queue, and finally flag it as 'done' or something or even (better?) remove the data in the db.

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