JMS message not delivered until receiver times out - jms

In my application, I am using MDBs to listen to messages from a queue and then posting a request message to another queue. This posting of message to another queue happens within the MDB. Then I wait for a response using recieve method with a timeout of 20 secs. What happens now is that the request message I post to the queue is not getting delivered for 20 secs.
The message gets delivered after 20 secs but by that time the receive method returns and we are not able to process the response we receive for our request.
I am not using transacted sessions for posting the message to the queue.
Please tell me why the message is not getting delivered till the timeout period.

Using an MDB suggests that you are running within a Java EE server of some sort. Are you sure you do not have a distributed (JTA) transaction enabled for your MDB and JMS session? That would explain the request message not getting delivered until your method returns. There can be a JTA transaction enabled even though the session transaction is specified to false.
This blog post covers this case pretty good, even though it's a bit old.
The short answer is to use a UserTransaction and commit the request transaction before starting to wait for a reply.

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HornetQ Behaviour for unacknowledged messages

I have a HornetQ based JMS provider and the consumer is attached to the provider in the CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE_MODE . The message.acknowledge () snippet though is under an if else . Thus the consumer would sometimes would not send an acknowledgement to the server in case there was an application layer failure in processing the message .So there are two questions here -
1)Will more messages that are queued in the server will keep on
flowing to the consumer even though the consumer did not acknowledge
on of the messages as stated earlier
2)Will the unacknowledged message flow down again on restarting the
consumer .
These are some of my observations on the questions I have asked
1)The messages keep on flowing down to the consumer as per the
consumer logs even though it did not acknowledge one of the messages
to the server due to an application layer failure (Note , there was
no uncaught exception as such , just that the consumer did not
acknowledge) .
2)Secondly , on restarting the consumer as well the message did not
flow down again from the server which is surprising .
Can someone please clarify this behaviour?
It has hard to fully determine what your application is doing in terms of message acknowledgement but my guess is that you are continuing to acknowledge messages after the failed attempt to acknowledge the message in question. In that case because you are using the Client Acknowledge mode the next Acknowledge will also apply to the previous message as that is how client mode works.
Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE: A client acknowledges a message by calling the message’s acknowledge method. In this mode, acknowledgment takes place on the session level: Acknowledging a consumed message automatically acknowledges the receipt of all messages that have been consumed by its session. For example, if a message consumer consumes ten messages and then acknowledges the fifth message delivered, all ten messages are acknowledged.
So if you read that carefully you will see how consumers in a Session acknowledging messages while in client Acknowledge mode could even affect one another.
For a better answer you'd need to break down the chain of event further so that in became more clear what is going on.

DMLC message consumption and acknowledgement

This is a follow up question for Difference between AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT mode with and without Spring JMS.
I am using DMLC and my concurrent consumers count is 1. The prefetch limit is > 1. I received a message and it is acknowledged before listener is executed. So, while the listener is executing, broker has more messages and it sends it to consumer as per prefetch settings. Since the listener is still executing, how will the consumption and acknowledgement works for subsequent messages?
Will the receive() be called for all new messages and will they be acknowledged and wait for listener execution to complete? [If this is the case then I am confused why I am getting unacknowledgedmessagecount in consumer stats]
OR
The receive() will be called but next message will not be acknowledged until the previous listener has completed its execution? [this could potentially explain the unacknowledged messages if my listener execution is blocked due to some other reason]
OR
Something else happens under the hood.
Can someone please explain this? It will help me a lot.
Thanks and Cheers!
No. receive() is called to get the first message; it is acknowledged when receive returns; the container thread then invokes the listener. (You have to use transactions with the DMLC if you want to roll back a failed delivery - if your listener throws an exception).
Any prefetched messages are delivered by the broker to the client library, but they will not be seen by Spring until your listener exits (onMessage()) after processing the previous message. i.e. receive() is called on the same thread as the MessageListener.
Prefetch is good in that the next message will be immediately available for the next receive(), but the downside is, if you have multiple consumer threads and a listener can sometimes take a long time to process a message, prefetched messages can sit in his queue while other threads are idle.

Blocking competing clients to take message from ActiveMQ

We have a JMS queue and multiple competing clients are reading from this queue.
Once the message is taken and successfully processed, we want to send the acknowledge to delete ( i.e. CLIENT ACKNOWLEDGE )
However, we want to make sure that if one client has picked the message another client should not take it from the queue.
Does activeMQ provide this feature out of the box using some configuration ?
Moreover:
If the message processing failed after picking the message, so it could not be acknowledged back, in this scenario we should like other client thread to pickup the message. Is it possible out of the box with configuration , may be specifying timeout values ?
Regards,
JE
You need to take some time to understand the difference between a Topic and a Qeueue in order to understand why the first question is not an issue.
For the second question it depends a bit on the ACK mode you are using and how you are processing messages sync or async. Normally for processing where you want to control redeliveries you would do the work inside of a transaction and if the processing fails the message would be redelivered when the TX is rolled back. ActiveMQ supports redelivery policies both client side and broker side that control how many time a message will be redelivered before sent to a DLQ.

ActiveMq, what happens if Client terminates before Ack

I have a persistent queue, non-transacted, client-acknowledge, the consumers read with jms.prefetchPolicy.queuePrefetch=1&wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=50000
and once a consumer processes a message, it ack's the message.
If the consumer reads the message, and before it can send an ack, the process terminates abruptly, what happens in ActiveMq? (What ActiveMq parameters come into play here?)
How is that different than if the the consumer will take 10 minutes to process the message (so the consumer task is alive and working), how does ActiveMq know the message is still being worked on? (Does it monitor the TCP/IP connection, if the connection dies, it assumes the message will not be Ack'ed?)
How do I determine if a message is a "poison pill", i.e. it makes the consumers crash? (the redelivery count seems to be valid if the consumer task does not die; is there an internal counter in the message that says "it was been read n times without being successfully ack'ed?")
As an experiment, I sent 6 messages, one of them being a "poison pill" (kills the consumer before the consumer can send the ack), with 2 simultaneous consumers running (and automatically restarting consumers to bring the count to 2 whenever a consumer dies). Looking at the queue (using jconsole, I enable jmx using broker.setUseJmx(true)), 4 messages were delivered, 2 are in-flight. Why would there be 2 in-flight instead of just one?
I've been reading the ActiveMq and JMS specs for a while without clear/conclusive answers, so any insights on what parameters come into play, and if there are any known bugs, will be greatly useful.
This is purely based on my understanding of JMS - may not be completely correct:
If the consumer reads the message, and before it can send an ack, the process terminates abruptly, what happens in ActiveMq
My understanding is that since this happens in the context of a session with the JMS provider, JMS provider knows if the session is no longer active or has failed and any message not acknowledged as part of the session will be redelivered when the session is re-established.
How do I determine if a message is a "poison pill", i.e. it makes the consumers crash?
Like you have mentioned, the JMS provider keeps track of the # of times the message was redelivered possibly in the header of the message
4 messages were delivered, 2 are in flight
Not sure about this point

Message re-delivery and error handling in Message Listeners

We have producer which is producing message at a rate faster than cosumer can consume. We are using Spring JMS integration as the consumer side technology stack. Currently we are using AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE mode.
In the onMessage() method of the listener, upon the receipt we are to planning submit the client side job to a job queue and return from the onMessage() method. This means if a) processing fails or b) our server goes down while processing there is no way for us recover.
We looked at the option of using CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE, but this means acknowledging a message with higher timestamp automatically acknowledges all the messages with a less timestamp. This is clearly not desirable for us because a successful processing a message with newer timestamp no way means that all the messages with older timestamp are processed completely. In effect we are looking on per message acknowledgement. However, I read somewhere that this means there is some design flaw.
The other option is to use a SessionAwareMessageListener interface provided by Spring. The contract of using this interface says that if a JMSException is thrown from the onMessage the message will be redelivered. However, I was not completely sure how to use this for our purpose.
While I dig more myself into this, any help from you guys will be greatly appreciated.
Session aware message has following onMessage prototype:
onMessage(Message message, Session session)
Invoke session.recover() for the message redelivery. Upon session.recover() will send all the unacknowledged messages back to the jms destination.

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