activemq-artemis/docs/user-manual/en/exclusive-queues.md

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# Exclusive Queues
Exclusive queues are special queues which route all messages to only one
consumer at a time.
This is useful when you want all messages to be processed serially by the same
consumer, when a producer does not specify [Message Grouping](message-grouping.md).
An example might be orders sent to an address and you need to consume them
in the exact same order they were produced.
Obviously exclusive queues have a draw back that you cannot scale out the
consumers to improve consumption as only one consumer would technically be active.
Here we advise that you look at message groups first.
## Configuring Exclusive Queues
Exclusive queues can be statically configured using the `exclusive` boolean
property:
```xml
<address name="foo.bar">
<multicast>
<queue name="orders1" exclusive="true"/>
</multicast>
</address>
```
Specified on creating a Queue by using the CORE api specifying the parameter
`exclusive` to `true`.
Or on auto-create when using the JMS Client by using address parameters when
creating the destination used by the consumer.
```java
Queue queue = session.createQueue("my.destination.name?exclusive=true");
Topic topic = session.createTopic("my.destination.name?exclusive=true");
```
Also the default for all queues under and address can be defaulted using the
`address-setting` configuration:
```xml
<address-setting match="lastValueQueue">
<default-exclusive-queue>true</default-exclusive-queue>
</address-setting>
```
By default, `default-exclusive-queue` is `false`. Address
[wildcards](wildcard-syntax.md) can be used to configure exclusive queues for a
set of addresses.
## Example
See the [exclusive queue example](examples.md#exclusive) which shows how
exclusive queues are configured and used with JMS.