<!--
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
distributed with this work for additional information
regarding copyright ownership. The ASF 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.
-->
<html>
<head>
<title>ActiveMQ Paging Example</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../common/common.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../common/prettify.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="../common/prettify.js"></script>
</head>
<body onload="prettyPrint()">
<h1>Paging Example</h1>
<p>This example shows how ActiveMQ would avoid running out of memory resources by paging messages.</p>
<p>A maxSize can be specified per Destination via the destinations settings configuration file (activemq-configuration.xml).</p>
<p>When messages routed to an address exceed the specified maxSize the server will begin to write messages to the file
system, this is called paging. This will continue to occur until messages have been delivered to consumers and subsequently
acknowledged freeing up memory. Messages will then be read from the file system , i.e. depaged, and routed as normal. </p>
<p>Acknowledgement plays an important factor on paging as messages will stay on the file system until the memory is released
so it is important to make sure that the client acknowledges its messages.</p>
<h2>Example step-by-step</h2>
<p><i>To run the example, simply type <code>mvn verify</code> from this directory</i></p>
<ol>
<li>First we need to get an initial context so we can look-up the JMS connection factory and destination objects from JNDI. This initial context will get it's properties from the <code>client-jndi.properties</code> file in the directory <code>../common/config</code></li>
<pre class="prettyprint">
<code>InitialContext initialContext = getContext();</code>
</pre>
<li>We look-up the JMS connection factory object from JNDI</li>
<pre class="prettyprint">
<code>ConnectionFactory cf = (ConnectionFactory) initialContext.lookup("/ConnectionFactory");</code>
</pre>
<li>We look-up the JMS queue object from JNDI. pagingQueue is configured to hold a very limited number of bytes in memory</li>
<pre class="prettyprint">
<code>Queue pageQueue = (Queue) initialContext.lookup("/queue/pagingQueue");</code>
</pre>
<li>We look-up the JMS queue object from JNDI.</li>
<pre class="prettyprint">
<code>Queue queue = (Queue) initialContext.lookup("/queue/exampleQueue");</code>
</pre>
<li>We create a JMS connection</li>
<pre class="prettyprint">
<code>connection = cf.createConnection();</code>
</pre>
<li>We create a JMS session. The session is created as non transacted. We will use client acknowledgement on this example.</li>
<pre class="prettyprint">
<code>Session session = connection.createSession(false, Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE);</code>
</pre>
<li>Create a JMS Message Producer for pageQueueAddress</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
MessageProducer pageMessageProducer = session.createProducer(pageQueue);
</pre></code>
<li>We don't need persistent messages in order to use paging. (This step is optional)</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
pageMessageProducer.setDeliveryMode(DeliveryMode.NON_PERSISTENT);
</pre></code>
<li>Create a Binary Bytes Message with 10K arbitrary bytes</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
BytesMessage message = session.createBytesMessage();
message.writeBytes(new byte[10 * 1024]);
</pre></code>
<li>Send only 20 messages to the Queue. This will be already enough for pagingQueue. Look at ./paging/config/activemq-queues.xml for the config.</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
{
pageMessageProducer.send(message);
}
</pre></code>
<li>Create a JMS Message Producer</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
MessageProducer messageProducer = session.createProducer(queue);
</pre></code>
<li>We don't need persistent messages in order to use paging. (This step is optional)</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
messageProducer.setDeliveryMode(DeliveryMode.NON_PERSISTENT);
</pre></code>
<li>Send the message for about 30K, which should be over the memory limit imposed by the server</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
for (int i = 0; i < 30000; i++)
{
messageProducer.send(message);
}
</pre></code>
<li>if you pause the example here, you will several files under ./build/data/paging</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
// Thread.sleep(30000); // if you want to just our of curiosity, you can sleep here and inspect the created files just for
</pre></code>
<li>Create a JMS Message Consumer</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
MessageConsumer messageConsumer = session.createConsumer(queue);
</pre></code>
<li>Start the JMS Connection. This step will activate the subscribers to receive messages.</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
connection.start();
</pre></code>
<li>Receive the messages. It's important to ACK for messages as ActiveMQ will not read messages from paging until messages are ACKed</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
for (int i = 0; i < 30000; i++)
{
message = (BytesMessage)messageConsumer.receive(1000);
if (i % 1000 == 0)
{
System.out.println("Received " + i + " messages");
message.acknowledge();
}
}
</pre></code>
<li>Receive the messages from the Queue names pageQueue. Create the proper consumer for that.</li>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>
messageConsumer.close();
messageConsumer = session.createConsumer(pageQueue);
for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
{
message = (BytesMessage)messageConsumer.receive(1000);
System.out.println("Received message " + i + " from pageQueue");
message.acknowledge();
}
</pre></code>
<li>And finally, <b>always</b> remember to close your JMS connections and resources after use, in a <code>finally</code> block. Closing a JMS connection will automatically close all of its sessions, consumers, producer and browser objects</li>
<pre class="prettyprint">
<code>finally
{
if (initialContext != null)
{
initialContext.close();
}
if (connection != null)
{
connection.close();
}
}</code>
</pre>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
4b63891aaa