Is there a way to know when the standby exclusive consumer become active

I'm using active/active exclusive consumer model to consume message from the ActiveMQ. Since I'm writing the consumed message files and split the file based on time(e.g. 30min). When the active consumer dies and the standby consume become active I need to start up the timer. So is there a way to

Re: Is there a way to know when the standby exclusive consumer become active

to get notified when consumers start or stop. For exclusive consumer it will release the exclusive lock when it's stopped, that means there must be a switch happening. At 2013-04-23 14:28:23,Sean Guo [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4666142i=0 wrote: I'm using active