So you are using the failover transport. By default, the failover transport will try indefinitely to connect with the broker. So while it is trying, your send will block.
See the following for info on how to give the failover transport some boundaries. http://activemq.apache.org/failover-transport-reference.html Joe zxlllk wrote: > > I am using ActiveMQ 5.1 (Stable Release) and the URL I use is > "failover:tcp://IP_ADDRESS:PORT" > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Do-the-send-timeouts-actually-work--tp20583221p20603636.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.