I've solved the problem by adding the following to the failover definition in
my spring configuration files of the listener:

<property name="brokerURL"
value="failover:(${host1},${host2})?jms.redeliveryPolicy.allPrefetchValues=${allPrefetchValues}&amp;jms.redeliveryPolicy.initialRedeliveryDelay=${initialRedeliveryDelay}&amp;jms.redeliveryPolicy.maximumRedeliveries=${maximumRedeliveries}&amp;jms.redeliveryPolicy.useCollisionAvoidance=${useCollisionAvoidance}"
/>

before it was just: 

<property name="brokerURL" value="failover:(${host1},${host2})" />
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