Details
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New Feature
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Abandoned
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5.x
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None
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Description
The current persistence store implementation only allows a single OpenWire version to be read from the store. This works fine during normal operations, but when a user upgrades to a version of ActiveMQ that uses a different OpenWire version, the new broker is unable to read any persisted messages from the store because of the version mismatch, as described in AMQ-5995.
Broker upgrades are going to happen, and the requirement that they be done with an empty message store, or that the user apply temporary workarounds like running the old broker in a networked configuration that's not the standard config for the cluster, leads to a less-than-satisfactory experience during the upgrade. As much as possible, broker upgrades should be seamless; sometimes that's not possible, but in this case it seems like code that would be able to read any version of OpenWire but only write the current one (and that could be less-efficient with older versions if necessary) wouldn't be all that hard and would eliminate this problem.
I expect that the choice of persistence store technology wouldn't affect the implementation of this feature, and that if you implement it you'd be able to use it for all persistence store types.