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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:48:17 -0800 (PST)
From: romanhawk <romanhawk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Proper handling of disconnected consumers - best approach
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Dear colleagues,

I have the following scenario to implement and looking for best ways to
accomplish it:

1. I have embedded broker on the server
2. There are several consumers running behind firewalls/NAT connected to
that server
3. Messages are produced by the server and put into the embedded broker to
be consumed by remote consumers
4. Communication is based on Queues so only one consumer should receive and
handle the message

There are messages, which can be processed by any consumer (some kind of
clustering). If some consumer is gracefully turned off, messages are sent to
remained consumers without any issue. But what if cable is simply unplugged
and consumer is not reachable anymore. Still, as far as I understand, broker
put the messages to be consumed by that "dead" consumer so eventually they
would not be processed and end up in DLQ. Of course, after timeout, consumer
will become disconnected as ActiveMQ will be aware of broken transport, but
remaining messages would not be delivered to other consumers.

What is the best approach to deal with such situation (messages put to
"dead" consumer to be handled by another consumer). Message redelivery?
Probably there is some simpler approach and I'm simply missing some XML
configuration for such stuff. Though, as my broker is embedded, I can create
any "hooks" to provide necessary functionality if necessary. 

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