[AMQ-2106] Allow broker to evenly distribute message groups among consumers

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.7.0
• Component/s: Broker
• Assignee: Gary Tully
• Reporter: Dejan Bosanac
• Created: 12/Feb/09 18:03
• Updated: 16/Dec/15 16:30
• Resolved: 01/Oct/12 10:24

Description

Currently the broker will not reassign message groups if new consumers becomes available (or existing ones are removed). We could allow the broker to try reassign the message groups when consumers are added/removed so that we have a even distribution among consumers.

Issue Links

• is related to: AMQ-3027 Message Groups and Group Sequence -1 sending messages in group to multiple consumers
• relates to: AMQ-6016 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!