I'm going to go ahead and say this a defect in 4.1 Virtual Topics appear to have lost the expected functionality of permanent registration -- that is, it fails the rule "once I register, give me all messages sent to the topic until I unregister".
I would love to be proved wrong because we truly need the ability to scale consumers by competing for messages on the queue, but if the broker goes down and we lose messages until we re-register then something is wrong. I shouldn't have to statically define every single client queue. That's not how it works in durable subscriptions, and it's not how it should work in virtual topics. Does anyone have a test that counters this? James.Strachan wrote: > > On 24/09/2007, dantelope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The following test produces unexpected results: >> >> 1) Start a broker with a statically defined destination topic called >> VirtualTopic.FOO >> 2) Start a consumer listening to Consumer.A.VirtualTopic.FOO >> 3) Start a sender and send N messages to VirtualTopic.FOO >> 4) Consumer correctly receives N messages. >> 5) Kill the consumer process >> 6) Stop the broker >> 7) Start the broker >> 8) Start a sender and send N messages to VirtualTopic.FOO >> 9) Start a consumer listening to Consumer.A.VirtualTopic.FOO >> >> FAIL: the consumer does not receive N messages as expected. >> >> If I put messages on the topic before stopping the server, then the >> consumer >> WILL receive the messages on start up. >> >> Is this my misunderstanding of how Virtual Topics should work, or is this >> a >> defect I should report? > > Are you sending the messages using persistent mode? > http://activemq.apache.org/what-is-the-difference-between-persistent-and-non-persistent-delivery.html > > If not then its expected behaviour. > > Note that to re-enable the consumer each time you need to start the > consumer on startup of the broker or add the > Consumer.A.VirtualTopic.FOO queue to the startup destinations. > > http://activemq.apache.org/configure-startup-destinations.html > -- > James > ------- > http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ > > Open Source SOA > http://open.iona.com > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Virtual-Topic-not-working-as-expected---defect%2C-or-misunderstanding--tf4511392s2354.html#a12905702 Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
