If this is 5.2, and you do not provide a brokerUrl to your activemq connection factory then the failover transport will be used by default and it will block waiting to reconnect. Provide a brokerUrl and use "tcp://..." and you will get the exception you require.
2009/3/18 mffrench <mffre...@axway.com> > > Hello, > > if I kill ActiveMQ, there is no exception raised to my connected JMS > listener and so my client doesn't detect the link is broken with ActiveMQ. > I > think this is a bug which should be corrected. Is there any issue about > this > ? > > Thanks > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Killing-activemq-with-connected-JMS-listener-tp22576446p22576446.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- http://blog.garytully.com Open Source SOA http://FUSESource.com