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<chapter id="appserver-integration">
<title>Application Server Integration and Java EE</title>
<para>ActiveMQ can be easily installed in JBoss Application Server 4 or later. For details on
installing ActiveMQ in the JBoss Application Server please refer to quick-start guide.</para>
<para>Since ActiveMQ also provides a JCA adapter, it is also possible to integrate ActiveMQ
as a JMS provider in other JEE compliant app servers. For instructions on how to integrate a
remote JCA adaptor into another application sever, please consult the other application server's
instructions.</para>
<para>A JCA Adapter basically controls the inflow of messages to Message-Driven Beans (MDBs) and the
outflow of messages sent from other JEE components, e.g. EJBs and Servlets.</para>
<para>This section explains the basics behind configuring the different JEE components in the
AS.</para>
<section id="configuring-mdbs">
<title>Configuring Message-Driven Beans</title>
<para>The delivery of messages to an MDB using ActiveMQ is configured on the JCA Adapter via
a configuration file <literal>ra.xml</literal> which can be found under the <literal
>jms-ra.rar</literal> directory. By default this is configured to consume
messages using an InVM connector from the instance of ActiveMQ running within the
application server. The configuration properties are listed later in this chapter. </para>
<para>All MDBs however need to have the destination type and the destination configured.
The following example shows how this can be done using annotations:</para>
<programlisting>
@MessageDriven(name = "MDBExample", activationConfig =
{
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destination", propertyValue = "queue/testQueue")
})
@ResourceAdapter("activemq-ra.rar")
public class MDBExample implements MessageListener
{
public void onMessage(Message message)...
}</programlisting>
<para>In this example you can see that the MDB will consume messages from a queue that is
mapped into JNDI with the binding <literal>queue/testQueue</literal>. This queue must be
preconfigured in the usual way using the ActiveMQ configuration files.</para>
<para>The <literal>ResourceAdapter</literal> annotation is used to specify which adaptor
should be used. To use this you will need to import <literal
>org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.ResourceAdapter</literal> for JBoss AS 5.X and later version which can be found in the
<literal>jboss-ejb3-ext-api.jar</literal> which can be found in the JBoss
repository. For JBoss AS 4.X, the annotation to use is <literal>org.jboss.annotation.ejb.ResourceAdaptor</literal>.</para>
<para>
Alternatively you can add use a deployment descriptor and add something like
the following to <literal
>jboss.xml</literal><programlisting>&lt;message-driven>
&lt;ejb-name>ExampleMDB&lt;/ejb-name>
&lt;resource-adapter-name>activemq-ra.rar&lt;/resource-adapter-name>
&lt;/message-driven>
</programlisting>You
can also rename the activemq-ra.rar directory to jms-ra.rar and neither the annotation or
the extra descriptor information will be needed. If you do this you will need to edit
the <literal>jms-ds.xml</literal> datasource file and change <literal>rar-name</literal>
element.</para>
<note>
<para>ActiveMQ is the default JMS provider for JBoss AS 6. Starting with this AS version, ActiveMQ resource
adapter is named <literal>jms-ra.rar</literal> and you no longer need to annotate the MDB for the resource adapter name.</para>
</note>
<para>All the examples shipped with the ActiveMQ distribution use the annotation.</para>
<section>
<title>Using Container-Managed Transactions</title>
<para>When an MDB is using Container-Managed Transactions (CMT), the delivery of the
message is done within the scope of a JTA transaction. The commit or rollback of
this transaction is controlled by the container itself. If the transaction is rolled
back then the message delivery semantics will kick in (by default, it will try to
redeliver the message up to 10 times before sending to a DLQ). Using annotations
this would be configured as follows:</para>
<programlisting>
@MessageDriven(name = "MDB_CMP_TxRequiredExample", activationConfig =
{
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destination", propertyValue = "queue/testQueue")
})
@TransactionManagement(value= TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
@TransactionAttribute(value= TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
@ResourceAdapter("activemq-ra.rar")
public class MDB_CMP_TxRequiredExample implements MessageListener
{
public void onMessage(Message message)...
}</programlisting>
<para>The <literal>TransactionManagement</literal> annotation tells the container to manage the
transaction. The <literal>TransactionAttribute</literal> annotation tells the container that a JTA
transaction is required for this MDB. Note that the only other valid value for this
is <literal>TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED</literal> which tells the
container that this MDB does not support JTA transactions and one should not be
created.</para>
<para>It is also possible to inform the container that it must rollback the transaction
by calling <literal>setRollbackOnly</literal> on the <literal
>MessageDrivenContext</literal>. The code for this would look something
like:</para>
<programlisting>
@Resource
MessageDrivenContextContext ctx;
public void onMessage(Message message)
{
try
{
//something here fails
}
catch (Exception e)
{
ctx.setRollbackOnly();
}
}</programlisting>
<para>If you do not want the overhead of an XA transaction being created every time but
you would still like the message delivered within a transaction (i.e. you are only
using a JMS resource) then you can configure the MDB to use a local transaction.
This would be configured as such:</para>
<programlisting>
@MessageDriven(name = "MDB_CMP_TxLocalExample", activationConfig =
{
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destination", propertyValue = "queue/testQueue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "useLocalTx", propertyValue = "true")
})
@TransactionManagement(value = TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
@TransactionAttribute(value = TransactionAttributeType.NOT_SUPPORTED)
@ResourceAdapter("activemq-ra.rar")
public class MDB_CMP_TxLocalExample implements MessageListener
{
public void onMessage(Message message)...
}</programlisting>
</section>
<section>
<title>Using Bean-Managed Transactions</title>
<para>Message-driven beans can also be configured to use Bean-Managed Transactions
(BMT). In this case a User Transaction is created. This would be configured as
follows:</para>
<programlisting>
@MessageDriven(name = "MDB_BMPExample", activationConfig =
{
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destination", propertyValue = "queue/testQueue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "acknowledgeMode", propertyValue = "Dups-ok-acknowledge")
})
@TransactionManagement(value= TransactionManagementType.BEAN)
@ResourceAdapter("activemq-ra.rar")
public class MDB_BMPExample implements MessageListener
{
public void onMessage(Message message)
}</programlisting>
<para>When using Bean-Managed Transactions the message delivery to the MDB will occur
outside the scope of the user transaction and use the acknowledge mode specified by
the user with the <literal>acknowledgeMode</literal> property. There are only 2
acceptable values for this <literal>Auto-acknowledge</literal> and <literal
>Dups-ok-acknowledge</literal>. Please note that because the message delivery is outside
the scope of the transaction a failure within the MDB will not cause the message to
be redelivered.</para>
<para>A user would control the life-cycle of the transaction something like the
following:</para>
<programlisting>
@Resource
MessageDrivenContext ctx;
public void onMessage(Message message)
{
UserTransaction tx;
try
{
TextMessage textMessage = (TextMessage)message;
String text = textMessage.getText();
UserTransaction tx = ctx.getUserTransaction();
tx.begin();
//do some stuff within the transaction
tx.commit();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
tx.rollback();
}
}</programlisting>
</section>
<section>
<title>Using Message Selectors with Message-Driven Beans</title>
<para>It is also possible to use MDBs with message selectors. To do this simple define
your message selector as follows:</para>
<programlisting>
@MessageDriven(name = "MDBMessageSelectorExample", activationConfig =
{
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destination", propertyValue = "queue/testQueue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "messageSelector", propertyValue = "color = 'RED'")
})
@TransactionManagement(value= TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
@TransactionAttribute(value= TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
@ResourceAdapter("activemq-ra.rar")
public class MDBMessageSelectorExample implements MessageListener
{
public void onMessage(Message message)....
}</programlisting>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Sending Messages from within JEE components</title>
<para>The JCA adapter can also be used for sending messages. The Connection Factory to use
is configured by default in the <literal>jms-ds.xml</literal> file and is mapped to
<literal>java:/JmsXA</literal>. Using this from within a JEE component will mean
that the sending of the message will be done as part of the JTA transaction being used
by the component.</para>
<para>This means that if the sending of the message fails the overall transaction would
rollback and the message be re-sent. Heres an example of this from within an
MDB:</para>
<programlisting>
@MessageDriven(name = "MDBMessageSendTxExample", activationConfig =
{
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destination", propertyValue = "queue/testQueue")
})
@TransactionManagement(value= TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
@TransactionAttribute(value= TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
@ResourceAdapter("activemq-ra.rar")
public class MDBMessageSendTxExample implements MessageListener
{
@Resource(mappedName = "java:/JmsXA")
ConnectionFactory connectionFactory;
@Resource(mappedName = "queue/replyQueue")
Queue replyQueue;
public void onMessage(Message message)
{
Connection conn = null;
try
{
//Step 9. We know the client is sending a text message so we cast
TextMessage textMessage = (TextMessage)message;
//Step 10. get the text from the message.
String text = textMessage.getText();
System.out.println("message " + text);
conn = connectionFactory.createConnection();
Session sess = conn.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
MessageProducer producer = sess.createProducer(replyQueue);
producer.send(sess.createTextMessage("this is a reply"));
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally
{
if(conn != null)
{
try
{
conn.close();
}
catch (JMSException e)
{
}
}
}
}
}</programlisting>
<para>In JBoss Application Server you can use the JMS JCA adapter for sending messages from
EJBs (including Session, Entity and Message-Driven Beans), Servlets (including jsps) and
custom MBeans.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>MDB and Consumer pool size</title>
<para>Most application servers, including JBoss, allow you to configure how many MDB's there are in a pool. In
JBoss this is configured via the <literal>MaxPoolSize</literal> parameter in the ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml file. Configuring
this has no actual effect on how many sessions/consumers there actually are created. This is because the Resource
Adaptor implementation knows nothing about the application servers MDB implementation. So even if you set the MDB
pool size to 1, 15 sessions/consumers will be created (this is the default). If you want to limit how many
sessions/consumers are created then you need to set the <literal>maxSession</literal> parameter either on the
resource adapter itself or via an an Activation Config Property on the MDB itself</para>
<programlisting>
@MessageDriven(name = "MDBMessageSendTxExample", activationConfig =
{
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destination", propertyValue = "queue/testQueue"),
@ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "maxSession", propertyValue = "1")
})
@TransactionManagement(value= TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
@TransactionAttribute(value= TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
@ResourceAdapter("activemq-ra.rar")
public class MyMDB implements MessageListener
{ ....}
</programlisting>
</section>
<section>
<title>Configuring the JCA Adaptor</title>
<para>The Java Connector Architecture (JCA) Adapter is what allows ActiveMQ to be integrated
with JEE components such as MDBs and EJBs. It configures how components such as MDBs
consume messages from the ActiveMQ server and also how components such as EJBs or
Servlets can send messages.</para>
<para>The ActiveMQ JCA adapter is deployed via the <literal>jms-ra.rar</literal> archive. The
configuration of the adapter is found in this archive under <literal
>META-INF/ra.xml</literal>.</para>
<para>The configuration will look something like the following:</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;resourceadapter>
&lt;resourceadapter-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQResourceAdapter&lt;/resourceadapter-class>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The transport type. Multiple connectors can be configured by using a comma separated list,
i.e. org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.invm.InVMConnectorFactory,org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.invm.InVMConnectorFactory.&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>ConnectorClassName&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.invm.InVMConnectorFactory&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The transport configuration. These values must be in the form of key=val;key=val;,
if multiple connectors are used then each set must be separated by a comma i.e. host=host1;port=5445,host=host2;port=5446.
Each set of parameters maps to the connector classname specified.&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>ConnectionParameters&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>server-id=0&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;outbound-resourceadapter>
&lt;connection-definition>
&lt;managedconnectionfactory-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRAManagedConnection
Factory&lt;/managedconnectionfactory-class>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The default session type&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>SessionDefaultType&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>javax.jms.Queue&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>Try to obtain a lock within specified number of seconds; less
than or equal to 0 disable this functionality&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>UseTryLock&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.Integer&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>0&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;connectionfactory-interface>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRAConnectionFactory
&lt;/connectionfactory-interface>
&lt;connectionfactororg.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQConnectionFactoryImplonFactoryImpl
&lt;/connectionfactory-impl-class>
&lt;connection-interface>javax.jms.Session&lt;/connection-interface>
&lt;connection-impl-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRASession
&lt;/connection-impl-class>
&lt;/connection-definition>
&lt;transaction-support>XATransaction&lt;/transaction-support>
&lt;authentication-mechanism>
&lt;authentication-mechanism-type>BasicPassword
&lt;/authentication-mechanism-type>
&lt;credential-interface>javax.resource.spi.security.PasswordCredential
&lt;/credential-interface>
&lt;/authentication-mechanism>
&lt;reauthentication-support>false&lt;/reauthentication-support>
&lt;/outbound-resourceadapter>
&lt;inbound-resourceadapter>
&lt;messageadapter>
&lt;messagelistener>
&lt;messagelistener-type>javax.jms.MessageListener&lt;/messagelistener-type>
&lt;activationspec>
&lt;activationspec-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.inflow.ActiveMQActivationSpec
&lt;/activationspec-class>
&lt;required-config-property>
&lt;config-property-name>destination&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;/required-config-property>
&lt;/activationspec>
&lt;/messagelistener>
&lt;/messageadapter>
&lt;/inbound-resourceadapter>
&lt;/resourceadapter></programlisting>
<para>There are three main parts to this configuration.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>A set of global properties for the adapter</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The configuration for the outbound part of the adapter. This is used for
creating JMS resources within EE components. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The configuration of the inbound part of the adapter. This is used for
controlling the consumption of messages via MDBs. </para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<section>
<title>Global Properties</title>
<para>The first element you see is <literal>resourceadapter-class</literal> which should
be left unchanged. This is the ActiveMQ resource adapter class.</para>
<para>After that there is a list of configuration properties. This will be where most of
the configuration is done. The first two properties configure the transport used by the adapter
and the rest configure the connection factory itself.
</para>
<note>
<para>All connection factory properties will use the defaults if they are not provided, except
for the <literal>reconnectAttempts</literal> which will default to -1. This
signifies that the connection should attempt to reconnect on connection
failure indefinitely. This is only used when the adapter is configured to
connect to a remote server as an InVM connector can never fail.
</para>
</note>
<para>The following table explains what each property is for.</para>
<table frame="topbot" border="2">
<title>Global Configuration Properties</title>
<tgroup cols="3">
<colspec colname="c1" colnum="1"/>
<colspec colname="c2" colnum="2"/>
<colspec colname="c3" colnum="3"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Property Name</entry>
<entry>Property Type</entry>
<entry>Property Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>ConnectorClassName</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>The Connector class name (see <xref
linkend="configuring-transports"/> for more information). If multiple connectors are
needed this should be provided as a comma separated list.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>ConnectionParameters</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>The transport configuration. These parameters must be in the form of
<literal>key1=val1;key2=val2;</literal> and will be specific to the connector used. If
multiple connectors are configured then parameters should be supplied for each connector
separated by a comma.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>ha</entry>
<entry>boolean</entry>
<entry>True if high availability is needed.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>useLocalTx</entry>
<entry>boolean</entry>
<entry>True will enable local transaction optimisation.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>UserName</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>The user name to use when making a connection </entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Password</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>The password to use when making a connection</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.discovery-group.group-address">DiscoveryAddress</link></entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>The discovery group address to use to auto-detect a server</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.discovery-group.group-port">DiscoveryPort</link></entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>The port to use for discovery</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.discovery-group.refresh-timeout">DiscoveryRefreshTimeout</link></entry>
<entry>Long</entry>
<entry>The timeout, in milliseconds, to refresh.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.discovery-initial-wait-timeout">
DiscoveryInitialWaitTimeout
</link>
</entry>
<entry>Long</entry>
<entry>The initial time to wait for discovery.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.connection-load-balancing-policy-class-name">
ConnectionLoadBalancingPolicyClassName</link>
</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>The load balancing policy class to use.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.connection-ttl">ConnectionTTL</link>
</entry>
<entry>Long</entry>
<entry>The time to live (in milliseconds) for the connection.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.call-timeout">CallTimeout</link>
</entry>
<entry>Long</entry>
<entry>the call timeout (in milliseconds) for each packet sent.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.dups-ok-batch-size">DupsOKBatchSize</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>the batch size (in bytes) between acknowledgements when using
DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE mode</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.transaction-batch-size">TransactionBatchSize</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>the batch size (in bytes) between acknowledgements when using a
transactional session</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.consumer-window-size">ConsumerWindowSize</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>the window size (in bytes) for consumer flow control</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.consumer-max-rate">ConsumerMaxRate</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>the fastest rate a consumer may consume messages per second</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.confirmation-window-size">ConfirmationWindowSize</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>the window size (in bytes) for reattachment confirmations</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.producer-max-rate">ProducerMaxRate</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>the maximum rate of messages per second that can be sent</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.min-large-message-size">MinLargeMessageSize</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>the size (in bytes) before a message is treated as large </entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.block-on-acknowledge">BlockOnAcknowledge</link>
</entry>
<entry>Boolean</entry>
<entry>whether or not messages are acknowledged synchronously</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.block-on-non-durable-send">BlockOnNonDurableSend</link>
</entry>
<entry>Boolean</entry>
<entry>whether or not non-durable messages are sent synchronously</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.block-on-durable-send">BlockOnDurableSend</link>
</entry>
<entry>Boolean</entry>
<entry>whether or not durable messages are sent synchronously</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.auto-group">AutoGroup</link>
</entry>
<entry>Boolean</entry>
<entry>whether or not message grouping is automatically used</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.pre-acknowledge">PreAcknowledge</link>
</entry>
<entry>Boolean</entry>
<entry>whether messages are pre acknowledged by the server before
sending</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.reconnect-attempts">ReconnectAttempts</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>maximum number of retry attempts, default for the resource adapter is -1 (infinite attempts)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.retry-interval">RetryInterval</link>
</entry>
<entry>Long</entry>
<entry>the time (in milliseconds) to retry a connection after failing</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.retry-interval-multiplier">RetryIntervalMultiplier</link>
</entry>
<entry>Double</entry>
<entry>multiplier to apply to successive retry intervals</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.failover-on-server-shutdown">FailoverOnServerShutdown</link>
</entry>
<entry>Boolean</entry>
<entry>If true client will reconnect to another server if
available</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.client-id">ClientID</link>
</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>the pre-configured client ID for the connection factory</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.client-failure-check-period">ClientFailureCheckPeriod</link>
</entry>
<entry>Long</entry>
<entry>the period (in ms) after which the client will consider the
connection failed after not receiving packets from the
server</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.use-global-pools">UseGlobalPools</link>
</entry>
<entry>Boolean</entry>
<entry>whether or not to use a global thread pool for threads</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.scheduled-thread-pool-max-size">ScheduledThreadPoolMaxSize</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>the size of the <emphasis>scheduled thread</emphasis> pool</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<link linkend="configuration.connection-factory.thread-pool-max-size">ThreadPoolMaxSize</link>
</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>the size of the thread pool</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>SetupAttempts</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>Number of attempts to setup a JMS connection (default is 10, -1 means to attempt infinitely). It is possible
that the MDB is deployed before the JMS resources are available. In that case, the resource
adapter will try to setup several times until the resources are available. This applies only for inbound connections</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>SetupInterval</entry>
<entry>Long</entry>
<entry>Interval in milliseconds between consecutive attempts to setup a JMS connection (default is 2000m). This applies only for inbound connections</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</section>
<section>
<title>Adapter Outbound Configuration</title>
<para>The outbound configuration should remain unchanged as they define connection
factories that are used by Java EE components. These Connection Factories can be
defined inside a configuration file that matches the name <literal
>*-ds.xml</literal>. You'll find a default <literal>jms-ds.xml</literal>
configuration under the <literal>activemq</literal> directory in the JBoss AS
deployment. The connection factories defined in this file inherit their
properties from the main <literal>ra.xml</literal> configuration but can also be
overridden. The following example shows how to override them.</para>
<note>
<para>Please note that this configuration only applies when ActiveMQ resource adapter is installed in
JBoss Application Server. If you are using another JEE application
server please refer to your application servers documentation for how to do
this.</para>
</note>
<programlisting>
&lt;tx-connection-factory>
&lt;jndi-name>RemoteJmsXA&lt;/jndi-name>
&lt;xa-transaction/>
&lt;rar-name>jms-ra.rar&lt;/rar-name>
&lt;connection-definition>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRAConnectionFactory
&lt;/connection-definition>
&lt;config-property name="SessionDefaultType" type="String">javax.jms.Topic&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property name="ConnectorClassName" type="String">
org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property name="ConnectionParameters" type="String">
port=5445&lt;/config-property>
&lt;max-pool-size>20&lt;/max-pool-size>
&lt;/tx-connection-factory></programlisting>
<warning>
<title>overriding connectors</title>
<para>If the connector class name is overridden the all parameters must also be supplied.</para>
</warning>
<para>In this example the connection factory will be bound to JNDI with the name
<literal>RemoteJmsXA</literal> and can be looked up in the usual way using JNDI
or defined within the EJB or MDB as such:</para>
<programlisting>
@Resource(mappedName="java:/RemoteJmsXA")
private ConnectionFactory connectionFactory;</programlisting>
<para>The <literal>config-property</literal> elements are what overrides those in the
<literal>ra.xml</literal> configuration file. Any of the elements pertaining to the
connection factory can be overridden here.</para>
<para>The outbound configuration also defines additional properties in addition to the global configuration properties.</para>
<table frame="topbot" border="2">
<title>Outbound Configuration Properties</title>
<tgroup cols="3">
<colspec colname="c1" colnum="1"/>
<colspec colname="c2" colnum="2"/>
<colspec colname="c3" colnum="3"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Property Name</entry>
<entry>Property Type</entry>
<entry>Property Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>SessionDefaultType</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>the default session type</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>UseTryLock</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>try to obtain a lock within specified number of seconds. less
than or equal to 0 disable this functionality</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</section>
<section>
<title>Adapter Inbound Configuration</title>
<para>The inbound configuration should again remain unchanged. This controls what
forwards messages onto MDBs. It is possible to override properties on the MDB by
adding an activation configuration to the MDB itself. This could be used to
configure the MDB to consume from a different server.</para>
<para>The inbound configuration also defines additional properties in addition to the global configuration properties.</para>
<table frame="topbot" border="2">
<title>Inbound Configuration Properties</title>
<tgroup cols="3">
<colspec colname="c1" colnum="1"/>
<colspec colname="c2" colnum="2"/>
<colspec colname="c3" colnum="3"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Property Name</entry>
<entry>Property Type</entry>
<entry>Property Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>Destination</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>JNDI name of the destination</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>DestinationType</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>type of the destination, either <literal>javax.jms.Queue</literal> or <literal>javax.jms.Topic</literal>
(default is javax.jms.Queue)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>AcknowledgeMode</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>The Acknowledgment mode, either <literal>Auto-acknowledge</literal> or <literal>Dups-ok-acknowledge</literal>
(default is Auto-acknowledge). <literal>AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE</literal> and <literal>DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE</literal> are acceptable values.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>JndiParams</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>A semicolon (';') delimited string of name=value pairs which represent the properties to be used for the destination JNDI
look up. The properties depends on the JNDI implementation of the server hosting ActiveMQ. Typically only be used when the MDB is
configured to consume from a remote destination and needs to look up a JNDI reference rather than the ActiveMQ name of the
destination. Only relevant when <literal>useJNDI</literal> is <literal>true</literal> (default is an empty string).</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>MaxSession</entry>
<entry>Integer</entry>
<entry>Maximum number of session created by this inbound configuration (default is 15)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>MessageSelector</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>the message selector of the consumer</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>SubscriptionDurability</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>Type of the subscription, either <literal>Durable</literal> or <literal>NonDurable</literal></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>ShareSubscriptions</entry>
<entry>Boolean</entry>
<entry>When true, multiple MDBs can share the same <literal>Durable</literal> subscription</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>SubscriptionName</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>Name of the subscription</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>TransactionTimeout</entry>
<entry>Long</entry>
<entry>The transaction timeout in milliseconds (default is 0, the transaction does not timeout)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>UseJNDI</entry>
<entry>Boolean</entry>
<entry>Whether or not use JNDI to look up the destination (default is true)</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</section>
<section>
<title>Configuring the adapter to use a standalone ActiveMQ Server</title>
<para>Sometime you may want your messaging server on a different machine or separate from the application server.
If this is the case you will only need the activemq client libs installed. This section explains what config to create
and what jar dependencies are needed.</para>
<section>
<para>There are two configuration files needed to do this, one for the incoming adapter used for MDB's
and one for outgoing connections managed by the JCA managed connection pool used by outgoing JEE components
wanting outgoing connections.</para>
<section>
<title>Configuring the Incoming Adaptor</title>
<para>Firstly you will need to create directory under the
<literal>deploy</literal>
directory ending in
<literal>.rar.</literal>
For this example we will name the directory <literal>activemq-ra.rar</literal>. This detail is
important as
the name of directory is referred to by the MDB's and the outgoing configuration.
</para>
<note>
<para>The jboss default for this is <literal>jms-ra.rar</literal>, If you don't want to have to
configure your
MDB's you can use this but you may need to remove the generic adaptor that uses this.
</para>
</note>
<para>Under the
<literal>activemq-ra.rar</literal>
directory you will need to create a
<literal>META-INF</literal>
directory into which you should create an
<literal>ra.xml</literal>
configuration file. You can find a template
for the
<literal>ra.xml</literal>
under the config directory of the ActiveMQ distribution.
</para>
<para>To configure MDB's to consume messages from a remote ActiveMQ server you need to edit the
<literal>ra.xml</literal>
file under
<literal>deploy/activemq-ra.rar/META-INF</literal>
and change the transport type to
use a netty connector (instead of the invm connector that is defined) and configure its transport
parameters.
Heres an example of what this would look like:
</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;resourceadapter-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQResourceAdapter&lt;/resourceadapter-class>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The transport type&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>ConnectorClassName&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The transport configuration. These values must be in the form of key=val;key=val;&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>ConnectionParameters&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>host=127.0.0.1;port=5446&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property></programlisting>
<para>
If you want to provide a list of servers that the adapter can connect to you can provide a list of
connectors, each separated by a comma.
</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;resourceadapter-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQResourceAdapter&lt;/resourceadapter-class>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The transport type&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>ConnectorClassName&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory,org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The transport configuration. These values must be in the form of key=val;key=val;&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>ConnectionParameters&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>host=127.0.0.1;port=5446,host=127.0.0.2;port=5447&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property></programlisting>
<warning>
<title>provide all parameters</title>
<para>
Make sure you provide parameters for each connector configured. The position of the parameters in the
list maps to each connector provided.
</para>
</warning>
<para>This configures the resource adapter to connect to a server running on localhost listening on port
5446
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Configuring the outgoing adaptor</title>
<para>You will also need to configure the outbound connection by creating a <literal>activemq-ds.xml</literal>
and placing it under any directory that will be deployed under the <literal>deploy</literal> directory.
In a standard ActiveMQ jboss configuration this would be under <literal>activemq</literal> or <literal>activemq.sar</literal>
but you can place it where ever you like. Actually as long as it ends in <literal>-ds.xml</literal> you can
call it anything you like. You can again find a template for this file under the config directory of the
ActiveMQ distribution but called <literal>jms-ds.xml</literal> which is the jboss default.
</para>
<para>The following example shows a sample configuration</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;tx-connection-factory>
&lt;jndi-name>RemoteJmsXA&lt;/jndi-name>
&lt;xa-transaction/>
&lt;rar-name>activemq-ra.rar&lt;/rar-name>
&lt;connection-definition>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRAConnectionFactory&lt;/connection-definition>
&lt;config-property name="SessionDefaultType" type="java.lang.String">javax.jms.Topic&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property name="ConnectorClassName" type="java.lang.String">org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property name="ConnectionParameters" type="java.lang.String">host=127.0.0.1;port=5446&lt;/config-property>
&lt;max-pool-size>20&lt;/max-pool-size>
&lt;/tx-connection-factory></programlisting>
<para>Again you will see that this uses the netty connector type and will connect to the ActiveMQ server
running on localhost and listening on port 5446. JEE components can access this by using JNDI and looking
up the connection factory using JNDI using <literal>java:/RemoteJmsXA</literal>, you can see that this
is defined under the<literal>jndi-name</literal> attribute. You will also note that the outgoing connection
will be created by the resource adaptor configured under the directory <literal>activemq-ra.rar</literal>
as explained in the last section.
</para>
<para>
Also if you want to configure multiple connectors do this as a comma separated list as in the ra configuration.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Jar dependencies</title>
<para>This is a list of the ActiveMQ and third party jars needed</para>
<table frame="topbot" border="2">
<title>Jar Dependencies</title>
<tgroup cols="3">
<colspec colname="c1" colnum="1"/>
<colspec colname="c2" colnum="2"/>
<colspec colname="c3" colnum="3"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Jar Name</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
<entry>Location</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>activemq-ra.jar</entry>
<entry>The ActiveMQ resource adaptor classes</entry>
<entry>deploy/activemq-ra.rar or equivalent</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>activemq-core-client.jar</entry>
<entry>The ActiveMQ core client classes</entry>
<entry>either in the config lib, i.e. default/lib or the common lib dir, i.e. $JBOSS_HOME/common lib </entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>activemq-jms-client.jar</entry>
<entry>The ActiveMQ JMS classes</entry>
<entry>as above</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>netty.jar</entry>
<entry>The Netty transport classes</entry>
<entry>as above</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</section>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Configuring the JBoss Application Server to connect to Remote ActiveMQ Server</title>
<para>This is a step by step guide on how to configure a JBoss application server that doesn't have ActiveMQ installed
to use a remote instance of ActiveMQ</para>
<section>
<title>Configuring JBoss 5</title>
<para>Firstly download and install JBoss AS 5 as per the JBoss installation guide and ActiveMQ as per the
ActiveMQ installation guide. After that the following steps are required</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Copy the following jars from the ActiveMQ distribution to the <literal>lib</literal> directory of
which ever JBossAs configuration you have chosen, i.e. <literal>default</literal>.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>activemq-core-client.jar</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>activemq-jms-client.jar</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>activemq-ra.jar (this can be found inside the <literal>activemq-ra.rar</literal> archive)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>netty.jar</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>create the directories <literal>activemq-ra.rar</literal> and <literal>activemq-ra.rar/META-INF</literal>
under the <literal>deploy</literal> directory in your JBoss config directory</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>under the <literal>activemq-ra.rar/META-INF</literal> create a <literal>ra.xml</literal> file or
copy it from the ActiveMQ distribution (again it can be found in the <literal>activemq-ra.rar</literal> archive)
and configure it as follows</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
&lt;connector xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/connector_1_5.xsd"
version="1.5">
&lt;description>ActiveMQ 2.0 Resource Adapter Alternate Configuration&lt;/description>
&lt;display-name>ActiveMQ 2.0 Resource Adapter Alternate Configuration&lt;/display-name>
&lt;vendor-name>Red Hat Middleware LLC&lt;/vendor-name>
&lt;eis-type>JMS 1.1 Server&lt;/eis-type>
&lt;resourceadapter-version>1.0&lt;/resourceadapter-version>
&lt;license>
&lt;description>
Copyright 2009 Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat licenses this file to you under the Apache License, version
2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
implied. See the License for the specific language governing
permissions and limitations under the License.
&lt;/description>
&lt;license-required>true&lt;/license-required>
&lt;/license>
&lt;resourceadapter>
&lt;resourceadapter-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQResourceAdapter&lt;/resourceadapter-class>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The transport type&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>ConnectorClassName&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The transport configuration. These values must be in the form of key=val;key=val;&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>ConnectionParameters&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
<emphasis role="bold"> &lt;config-property-value>host=127.0.0.1;port=5445&lt;/config-property-value></emphasis>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;outbound-resourceadapter>
&lt;connection-definition>
&lt;managedconnectionfactory-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRAManagedConnectionFactory&lt;/managedconnectionfactory-class>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>The default session type&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>SessionDefaultType&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.String&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>javax.jms.Queue&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property>
&lt;description>Try to obtain a lock within specified number of seconds; less than or equal to 0 disable this functionality&lt;/description>
&lt;config-property-name>UseTryLock&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;config-property-type>java.lang.Integer&lt;/config-property-type>
&lt;config-property-value>0&lt;/config-property-value>
&lt;/config-property>
&lt;connectionfactory-interface>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRAConnectionFactory&lt;/connectionfactory-interface>
&lt;connectionfactory-impl-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRAConnectionFactoryImpl&lt;/connectionfactory-impl-class>
&lt;connection-interface>javax.jms.Session&lt;/connection-interface>
&lt;connection-impl-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRASession&lt;/connection-impl-class>
&lt;/connection-definition>
&lt;transaction-support>XATransaction&lt;/transaction-support>
&lt;authentication-mechanism>
&lt;authentication-mechanism-type>BasicPassword&lt;/authentication-mechanism-type>
&lt;credential-interface>javax.resource.spi.security.PasswordCredential&lt;/credential-interface>
&lt;/authentication-mechanism>
&lt;reauthentication-support>false&lt;/reauthentication-support>
&lt;/outbound-resourceadapter>
&lt;inbound-resourceadapter>
&lt;messageadapter>
&lt;messagelistener>
&lt;messagelistener-type>javax.jms.MessageListener&lt;/messagelistener-type>
&lt;activationspec>
&lt;activationspec-class>org.apache.activemq.ra.inflow.ActiveMQActivationSpec&lt;/activationspec-class>
&lt;required-config-property>
&lt;config-property-name>destination&lt;/config-property-name>
&lt;/required-config-property>
&lt;/activationspec>
&lt;/messagelistener>
&lt;/messageadapter>
&lt;/inbound-resourceadapter>
&lt;/resourceadapter>
&lt;/connector></programlisting>
<para>The important part of this configuration is the part in bold, i.e. &lt;config-property-value>host=127.0.0.1;port=5445&lt;/config-property-value>.
This should be configured to the host and port of the remote ActiveMQ server.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>At this point you should be able to now deploy MDB's that consume from the remote server. You will however,
have to make sure that your MDB's have the annotation <literal>@ResourceAdapter("activemq-ra.rar")</literal>
added, this is illustrated in the <xref linkend="configuring-mdbs">Configuring Message-Driven Beans</xref> section.
If you don't want to add this annotation then you can delete the generic resource adapter <literal>jms-ra.rar</literal>
and rename the <literal>activemq-ra.rar</literal> to this.</para>
<para>If you also want to use the remote ActiveMQ server for outgoing connections, i.e. sending messages, then
do the following:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Create a file called <literal>activemq-ds.xml</literal> in the <literal>deploy</literal> directory
(in fact you can call this anything you want as long as it ends in <literal>-ds.xml</literal>). Then
add the following:</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;connection-factories>
&lt;!--
JMS XA Resource adapter, use this for outbound JMS connections.
Inbound connections are defined at the @MDB activation or at the resource-adapter properties.
-->
&lt;tx-connection-factory>
&lt;jndi-name>RemoteJmsXA&lt;/jndi-name>
&lt;xa-transaction/>
&lt;rar-name>activemq-ra.rar&lt;/rar-name>
&lt;connection-definition>org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQRAConnectionFactory&lt;/connection-definition>
&lt;config-property name="SessionDefaultType" type="java.lang.String">javax.jms.Topic&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property name="ConnectorClassName" type="java.lang.String">org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory&lt;/config-property>
&lt;config-property name="ConnectionParameters" type="java.lang.String">host=127.0.0.1;port=5445&lt;/config-property>
&lt;max-pool-size>20&lt;/max-pool-size>
&lt;/tx-connection-factory>
&lt;/connection-factories></programlisting>
<para>Again you will see that the host and port are configured here to match the remote ActiveMQ servers
configuration. The other important attributes are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>jndi-name - This is the name used to look up the JMS connection factory from within your JEE client</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>rar-name - This should match the directory that you created to hold the Resource Adapter
configuration</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Now you should be able to send messages using the JCA JMS connection pooling within an XA transaction.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Configuring JBoss 5</title>
<para>The steps to do this are exactly the same as for JBoss 4, you will have to create a jboss.xml definition
file for your MDB with the following entry</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;message-driven>
&lt;ejb-name>MyMDB&lt;/ejb-name>
&lt;resource-adapter-name>jms-ra.rar&lt;/resource-adapter-name>
&lt;/message-driven></programlisting>
<para>Also you will need to edit the <literal>standardjboss.xml</literal> and uncomment the section with the
following 'Uncomment to use JMS message inflow from jmsra.rar' and then comment out the invoker-proxy-binding
called 'message-driven-bean'</para>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>High Availability JNDI (HA-JNDI)</title>
<para>If you are using JNDI to look-up JMS queues, topics and connection factories from a
cluster of servers, it is likely you will want to use HA-JNDI so that your JNDI look-ups
will continue to work if one or more of the servers in the cluster fail.</para>
<para>HA-JNDI is a JBoss Application Server service which allows you to use JNDI from
clients without them having to know the exact JNDI connection details of every server in
the cluster. This service is only available if using a cluster of JBoss Application
Server instances.</para>
<para>To use it use the following properties when connecting to JNDI.</para>
<programlisting>
Hashtable&lt;String, String> jndiParameters = new Hashtable&lt;String, String>();
jndiParameters.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
jndiParameters.put("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=", "org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");
initialContext = new InitialContext(jndiParameters);</programlisting>
<para>For more information on using HA-JNDI see the <ulink
url="http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbossas/freezone/docs/Clustering_Guide/5/html/clustering-jndi.html"
>JBoss Application Server clustering documentation</ulink></para>
</section>
<section id="xa-recovery">
<title>XA Recovery</title>
<para><emphasis>XA recovery</emphasis> deals with system or application failures to ensure
that of a transaction are applied consistently to all resources affected by the
transaction, even if any of the application processes or the machine hosting them crash
or lose network connectivity. For more information on XA Recovery,please refer to <ulink
url="http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/JBossTransactions">JBoss
Transactions</ulink>.</para>
<para>When ActiveMQ is integrated with JBoss AS, it can take advantage of JBoss Transactions
to provide recovery of messaging resources. If messages are involved in a XA
transaction, in the event of a server crash, the recovery manager will ensure that the
transactions are recovered and the messages will either be committed or rolled back
(depending on the transaction outcome) when the server is restarted.</para>
<section>
<title>XA Recovery Configuration</title>
<para>To enable ActiveMQ's XA Recovery, the Recovery Manager must be configured to connect
to ActiveMQ to recover its resources. The following property must be added to the
<literal>jta</literal> section of <literal>conf/jbossts-properties.xml</literal>
of JBoss AS profiles:</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;properties depends="arjuna" name="jta">
...
&lt;property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XAResourceRecovery.ActiveMQ1"
value="org.apache.activemq.jms.server.recovery.ActiveMQXAResourceRecovery;[connection configuration]"/>
&lt;property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.xaRecoveryNode" value="1"/>
&lt;/properties></programlisting>
<para>The <literal>[connection configuration]</literal> contains all the information
required to connect to ActiveMQ node under the form <literal>[connector factory class
name],[user name], [password], [connector parameters]</literal>. </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>[connector factory class name]</literal> corresponds to the name
of the <literal>ConnectorFactory</literal> used to connect to ActiveMQ.
Values can be <literal
>org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.invm.InVMConnectorFactory</literal> or
<literal
>org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>[user name]</literal> is the user name to create a client
session. It is optional</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>[password]</literal> is the password to create a client session.
It is mandatory only if the user name is specified</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>[connector parameters]</literal> is a list of comma-separated
key=value pair which are passed to the connector factory (see <xref
linkend="configuring-transports"/> for a list of the transport
parameters).</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Also note the <literal>com.arjuna.ats.jta.xaRecoveryNode</literal> parameter. If you want recovery
enabled then this must be configured to what ever the tx node id is set to, this is configured in the
same file by the <literal>com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.xa.nodeIdentifier</literal> property.</para>
<note>
<para>ActiveMQ must have a valid acceptor which corresponds to the connector
specified in <literal>conf/jbossts-properties.xml</literal>.</para>
</note>
<section>
<title>Configuration Settings</title>
<para>If ActiveMQ is configured with a default in-vm acceptor:</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;acceptor name="in-vm">
&lt;factory-class>org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.invm.InVMAcceptorFactory&lt;/factory-class>
&lt;/acceptor></programlisting>
<para>the corresponding configuration in <literal
>conf/jbossts-properties.xml</literal> is:</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XAResourceRecovery.ACTIVEMQ1"
value="org.apache.activemq.jms.server.recovery.ActiveMQXAResourceRecovery;org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.invm.InVMConnectorFactory"/></programlisting>
<para>If it is now configured with a netty acceptor on a non-default port:</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;acceptor name="netty">
&lt;factory-class>org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyAcceptorFactory&lt;/factory-class>
&lt;param key="port" value="8888"/>
&lt;/acceptor></programlisting>
<para>the corresponding configuration in <literal
>conf/jbossts-properties.xml</literal> is:</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XAResourceRecovery.ACTIVEMQ1"
value="org.apache.activemq.jms.server.recovery.ActiveMQXAResourceRecovery;org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory, , , port=8888"/></programlisting>
<note>
<para>Note the additional commas to skip the user and password before connector
parameters</para>
</note>
<para>If the recovery must use <literal>admin, adminpass</literal>, the
configuration would have been:</para>
<programlisting>
&lt;property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XAResourceRecovery.ACTIVEMQ1"
value="org.apache.activemq.jms.server.recovery.ActiveMQXAResourceRecovery;org.apache.activemq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory, admin, adminpass, port=8888"/></programlisting>
<para>Configuring ActiveMQ with an invm acceptor and configuring the Recovery Manager
with an invm connector is the recommended way to enable XA Recovery.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Example</title>
<para>See <xref linkend="xa-recovery-example"/> which shows how to configure XA Recovery
and recover messages after a server crash.</para>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>