Broker is automatically restarted during shutdown when using the vm transport

AMQ is embedded within a spring application. The only transport that is configured is the VM transport

<amq:broker useJmx="false" persistent="true" dataDirectory="var/jms">
 <amq:transportConnectors>
 <amq:transportConnector uri="vm://localhost" />
 </amq:transportConnectors>
</amq:broker>
<bean
class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer
" >
 <property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
 <property name="destination" ref="someTopic"/>
 <property name="sessionTransacted" value="true" />
 <property name="pubSubDomain" value="true"/> 
 <property name="subscriptionDurable" value="true" />
 <property name="clientId" value="clientid" />
 <property name="durableSubscriptionName" value="somename" />
</bean>

During shutdown, a new broker instance is created with default values, thereby ignoring the configured values like dataDirectory etc. This then resuls in the creation of the default dataDirectory with a new KahaDB

The cause:

The DefaultMessageListenerContainer detects that the connection to the broker fails (because the broker is shutdown).

The DefaultMessageListenerContainer#recoverAfterListenerSetupFailure method then tries to recover from the connection failure.
This then results in the automatic creation of a new broker instance because the create option of the VM transport is set to true by default:

"create ... If the broker should be created on demand if it does not
already exist."

From https://activemq.apache.org/vm-transport-reference

A workaround is to set the create value for the connection URI to false:

<amq:connectionFactory id="amqConnectionFactory" brokerURL="vm://localhost?create=false">

Stacktrace of the shutdown process:

[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG ID:martijn-laptop-46343-
1607956885604-4:1:1 Transaction Commit
:null (org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQSession)
org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer#0-1
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Publishing: vm://localhost for
broker transport URI:
vm://localhost (org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnector)
[ActiveMQ BrokerService[localhost] Task-2]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Publishing: vm://localhost for
broker transport URI:
vm://localhost (org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnector)
[ActiveMQ BrokerService[localhost] Task-2]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Connection Stopped:
vm://localhost#0 (org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection)
[ActiveMQ BrokerService[localhost] Task-2]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | INFO Connector vm://localhost
stopped (org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnector) [ActiveMQ
ShutdownHook]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 |
INFO PListStore:[/home/martijn/git/ciphermail-core/var/jms-
data/localhost/tmp_storage]
stopped (org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.plist.PListStoreImpl)
[ActiveMQ ShutdownHook]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | INFO Stopping async queue
tasks (org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.KahaDBStore) [ActiveMQ
ShutdownHook]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | INFO Stopping async topic
tasks (org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.KahaDBStore) [ActiveMQ
ShutdownHook]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Forcing shutdown of
ExecutorService:
org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.KahaDBStore$StoreTaskExecutor@7ae5430d
[Running, pool size = 0, active threads = 0, queued tasks = 0,
completed tasks = 0] (org.apache.activemq.util.ThreadPoolUtils)
[ActiveMQ ShutdownHook]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Shutdown of ExecutorService:
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@7cd2745d[Terminated, pool size
= 0, active threads = 0, queued tasks = 0, completed tasks = 1] is
shutdown: true and terminated: false took: 0.000
seconds. (org.apache.activemq.util.ThreadPoolUtils) [ActiveMQ
Connection Executor: vm://localhost#0]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Forcing shutdown of
ExecutorService:
org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.KahaDBStore$StoreTaskExecutor@30030b95
[Running, pool size = 0, active threads = 0, queued tasks = 0,
completed tasks = 0] (org.apache.activemq.util.ThreadPoolUtils)
[ActiveMQ ShutdownHook]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | INFO Stopped
KahaDB (org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.KahaDBStore) [ActiveMQ
ShutdownHook]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Shutdown of ExecutorService:
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@14ef957c[Shutting down, pool
size = 1, active threads = 1, queued tasks = 1, completed tasks = 0] is
shutdown: true and terminated: false took: 0.000
seconds. (org.apache.activemq.util.ThreadPoolUtils) [ActiveMQ
Connection Executor: vm://localhost#0]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Forcing shutdown of
ExecutorService:
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@7a50bc0d[Running, pool size =
2, active threads = 0, queued tasks = 0, completed tasks =
6] (org.apache.activemq.util.ThreadPoolUtils) [ActiveMQ Connection
Executor: vm://localhost#0]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Checkpoint
started. (org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.MessageDatabase)
[ActiveMQ ShutdownHook]
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | DEBUG Checkpoint
done. (org.apache.activemq.store.kahadb.MessageDatabase) [ActiveMQ
ShutdownHook]
[exec] java.lang.Thread.getStackTrace(Thread.java:1559)
[exec]
org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService.start(BrokerService.java:612)
[exec]
org.apache.activemq.transport.vm.VMTransportFactory.doCompositeConnect(
VMTransportFactory.java:127)
[exec]
org.apache.activemq.transport.vm.VMTransportFactory.doConnect(VMTranspo
rtFactory.java:56)
[exec]
org.apache.activemq.transport.TransportFactory.connect(TransportFactory
.java:65)
[exec]
org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory.createTransport(ActiveMQC
onnectionFactory.java:331)
[exec]
org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory.createActiveMQConnection(
ActiveMQConnectionFactory.java:346)
[exec]
org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory.createActiveMQConnection(
ActiveMQConnectionFactory.java:304)
[exec]
org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory.createConnection(ActiveMQ
ConnectionFactory.java:244)
[exec]
org.springframework.jms.connection.SingleConnectionFactory.doCreateConn
ection(SingleConnectionFactory.java:342)
[exec]
org.springframework.jms.connection.SingleConnectionFactory.initConnecti
on(SingleConnectionFactory.java:288)
[exec]
org.springframework.jms.connection.SingleConnectionFactory.createConnec
tion(SingleConnectionFactory.java:225)
[exec]
org.springframework.jms.support.JmsAccessor.createConnection(JmsAccesso
r.java:184)
[exec]
org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractJmsListeningContainer.createSh
aredConnection(AbstractJmsListeningContainer.java:405)
[exec]
org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractJmsListeningContainer.refreshS
haredConnection(AbstractJmsListeningContainer.java:390)
[exec]
org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer.refres
hConnectionUntilSuccessful(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:885)
[exec]
org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer.recove
rAfterListenerSetupFailure(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:861)
[exec]
org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncM
essageListenerInvoker.run(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:1012)
[exec] java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
[exec] 14 Dec 2020 15:41:32 | WARN Memory Usage for the Broker
(1024mb) is more than the maximum available for the JVM: 455 mb -
resetting to 70% of maximum available: 318
mb (org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService)
[org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMess