Setting Message Priority Levels

You can use message priority levels to instruct the JMS provider to deliver urgent messages first. You can set the priority level in either of two ways.

• You can use the setPriority method of the MessageProducer interface to set the priority level for all messages sent by that producer. For example, the following call sets a priority level of 7 for a producer:

  producer.setPriority(7);

• You can use the long form of the send or the publish method to set the priority level for a specific message. The third argument sets the priority level. For example, the following send call sets the priority level for message to 3:

  producer.send(message, DeliveryMode.NON_PERSISTENT, 3, 10000);

The ten levels of priority range from 0 (lowest) to 9 (highest). If you do not specify a priority level, the default level is 4. A JMS provider tries to deliver higher-priority messages before lower-priority ones but does not have to deliver messages in exact order of priority.