Connection Failover

To specify whether the Application Server tries to reconnect to the primary broker if the connection is lost, set the reconnect-enabled attribute in the JMS service. To specify the number of retries and the time between retries, set the reconnect-attempts and reconnect-interval-in-seconds attributes, respectively.

If reconnection is enabled and the primary broker goes down, the Application Server tries to reconnect to another broker in the AddressList. The AddressList is updated whenever a JMS host configuration changes. The logic for scanning is decided by two JMS service attributes, addresslist-behavior and addresslist-iterations.

You can override these settings using JMS connection factory settings. For details, see the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Update 2 Administration Guide.

The Sun Java System Message Queue software transparently transfers the load to another broker when the failover occurs. JMS semantics are maintained during failover.