Delivery Mode

The Delivery mode property specifies whether the messages for this JMS connection are persistent or non-persistent. This property applies to topic publishers and queue senders, and is specified in the Basic properties dialog.

Non-persistent delivery mode is the most efficient delivery mode, because it does not require messages to be saved to permanent storage. Per JMS specification, the message destination delivers non-persistent messages with an at-most-once guarantee. The message is only delivered once, even if it is lost. This mode involves a trade-off between performance and reliability. Non-persistence offers better performance but if a message server fails, messages may be lost due to a power outage.

When messages are persistent, the message server places the message in permanent storage to ensure the message is not lost in transit if the message server fails. Persistent messages are delivered once, and only once.

For the JMS IQ Manager, persistent messages are stored in the message server database files.

Default Value

The default delivery mode is Persistent.