Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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2.8.2
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camel-jms producer sending to ActiveMQ
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Unknown
Description
camel-jms should register an exception listener automatically when used as a message producer. That way it can deal with any exception that may occur on async sends.
To be more precise:
If a camel-jms producer sends a msg within a transaction to an ActiveMQ broker, then this message send happens async by default (kind of an optimization done by ActiveMQ). If anything goes wrong with the send (e.g. broker raises a javax.jms.ResourceAllocationException because its full or there is a transport problem) then we currently don't catch this exception as there is no async exception listener registered. What's worse the TX will be committed thereafter although the send has actually failed.
As a result the msg is lost.
For ActiveMQ there is a simple solution to this problem, either
- set jms.useAsyncSend=false on the broker URL, or
- call setAlwaysSyncSend(true) on the ActiveMQConnectionFactory
However many users won't be aware of this solution and will simply assume that using a transaction is enough to guard against message loss.
Also the same problem can potentially arise with other JMS providers if they also use async send within a transaction.
Camel should ensure that the out of the box behavior prevents from loosing msgs in transactional sends.