On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 05:17 -0800, joost wrote: > I use ActiveMQ-cpp to make a connection with an AcitveMQ server. The > CMSConnection is started with: > > // Create a ConnectionFactory > auto_ptr<ConnectionFactory> connectionFactory( > ConnectionFactory::createCMSConnectionFactory( brokerURI ) ); > > // Create a Connection > connection = connectionFactory->createConnection(); > connection->start(); > > This works fine if the ActiveMQ server is running, but when the user forgets > to start the ActiveMQ server before starting my application, the application > hangs in the function CMSConnection::start(). Is there a way to check if a > connection can be made with the ActiveMQ server before starting the > connection, or maybe a timeout on CMSConnection->start() is possible? > > Joost >
The failover transport is probably in use so the hang at start is normal as the client is waiting for a broker to connect to before proceeding. You can play around with the failover transport options if you really want it to fail. See: http://activemq.apache.org/cms/configuring.html Regards -- Tim Bish ------------ FuseSource Email: tim.b...@fusesource.com Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: tabish121 Blog: http://timbish.blogspot.com/
