JMS Service High Availability

There are two levels of availability for JMS components:

• Service availability – At this level, availability of the JMS service matters, but it's not important if messages are not available for a while. As long as a connection gets failed over to a new available instance providing the service, the JMS component considers that the service is available and functions normally. This level of availability is described in Connection Failover.

• Data availability – At this level, both availability of the service and persistent messages are required. JMS semantics of once and only once delivery and message ordering are also handled at this level.

You can enable data availability in the Sun GlassFish Message Queue cluster that comprises the Java Message Service (JMS). Messages are saved to the high-availability database (HADB) if HADB is installed, data availability is enabled, and the enterprise profile is selected. For information about profiles, see Usage Profiles in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Administration Guide. You must enable availability for the Enterprise Server instances before you can enable data availability for the corresponding brokers.

Individual applications and modules cannot control or override JMS availability.

To enable data availability, select the Availability Service component under the relevant configuration in the Admin Console. Check the Availability Service box. To enable availability for the JMS service, select the JMS Availability tab, then check the Availability Service box. All instances in an Enterprise Server cluster should have the same instance availability and JMS availability settings to ensure consistent behavior. For details, see the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 High Availability Administration Guide.

Some topics in the documentation pertain to features that are available only in domains that are configured to support clusters. Examples of domains that support clusters are domains that are created with the cluster profile or the enterprise profile. For information about profiles, see Usage Profiles in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Administration Guide.