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Virtual Topics
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Virtual Topics (a specialisation of virtual destinations) in ActiveMQ 5.x typically address two different but related
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problems. Lets take each in turn:
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Shared access to a JMS durable topic subscription
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With JMS1.1, a durable subscription is identified by the pair of clientId and subscriptionName. The clientId
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component must be unique to a connection on the broker. This means that the subscription is exclusive. It is
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not possible to load balance the stream of messages across consumers and quick failover is difficult because the
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existing connection state on the broker needs to be first disposed.
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With virtual topics, each subscription's stream of messages is redirected to a queue.
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JMS2.0 adds the possibility of shared subscriptions with new API's that are fully supported in Artemis.
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Secondly, Artemis uses a queue per topic subscriber model internally and it is possibly to directly address the
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subscription queue using it's Fully Qualified Queue name (FQQN).
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For example, a default 5.x consumer for topic `VirtualTopic.Orders` subscription `A`:
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```
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...
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Queue subscriptionQueue = session.createQueue("Consumer.A.VirtualTopic.Orders");
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session.createConsumer(subscriptionQueue);
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```
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would be replaced with an Artemis FQQN comprised of the address and queue.
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```
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...
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Queue subscriptionQueue = session.createQueue("VirtualTopic.Orders::Consumer.A");
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session.createConsumer(subscriptionQueue);
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```
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Durable topic subscribers in a network of brokers
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The store and forward network bridges in 5.x create a durable subscriber per destination. As demand migrates across a
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network, duplicate durable subs get created on each node in the network but they do not migrate. The end result can
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result in duplicate message storage and ultimately duplicate delivery, which is not good.
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When durable subscribers map to virtual topic subscriber queues, the queues can migrate and the problem can be avoided.
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In Artemis, because a durable sub is modeled as a queue, this problem does not arise. |