2.5. Configuring NMS.ActiveMQ


Abstract

All configuration settings can be accessed through URI-encoded options, which can be set either on a connection or on a destination. Using the URI syntax, you can configure virtually every facet of an NMS.ActiveMQ client.

Connection configuration using the generic NMSConnectionFactory class

Using the Generic NMSConnectionFactory class, you can configure an ActiveMQ endpoint as follows:
var cf = new NMSConnectionFactory(
    "activemq:tcp://localhost:61616?wireFormat.tightEncodingEnabled=true");

Connection configuration using the ActiveMQ ConnectionFactory class

Using the ActiveMQ ConnectionFactory class, you can configure an ActiveMQ endpoint as follows:
var cf = new Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ.ConnectionFactory(
    "tcp://localhost:61616?wireFormat.tightEncodingEnabled=true");

Protocol variants

The following variants of the OpenWire protocol are supported:
Option Name
Description
tcp
Uses TCP/IP Sockets to connect to the Broker.
ssl
Uses TCP/IP Sockets to connect to the Broker with an added SSL layer.
discovery
Uses The Discovery Transport to find a Broker.
failover
Uses the Failover Transport to connect and reconnect to one or more Brokers.

TCP transport options

The tcp transport supports the following options:
Option Name
Default
Description
transport.useLogging
false
Log data that is sent across the Transport.
transport.receiveBufferSize
8192
Amount of Data to buffer from the Socket.
transport.sendBufferSize
8192
Amount of Data to buffer before writing to the Socket.
transport.receiveTimeout
0
Time to wait for more data, zero means wait infinitely.
transport.sendTimeout
0
Timeout on sends, 0 means wait forever for completion.
transport.requestTimeout
0
Time to wait before a Request Command is considered to have failed.

Failover transport options

The failover transport supports the following options:
Option Name
Default
Description
transport.timeout
-1
Time that a send operation blocks before failing.
transport.initialReconnectDelay
10
Time in Milliseconds that the transport waits before attempting to reconnect the first time.
transport.maxReconnectDelay
30000
The max time in Milliseconds that the transport will wait before attempting to reconnect.
transport.backOffMultiplier
2
The amount by which the reconnect delay will be multiplied by if useExponentialBackOff is enabled.
transport.useExponentialBackOff
true
Should the delay between connection attempt grow on each try up to the max reconnect delay.
transport.randomize
true
Should the Uri to connect to be chosen at random from the list of available Uris.
transport.maxReconnectAttempts
0
Maximum number of time the transport will attempt to reconnect before failing (0 means infinite retries)
transport.startupMaxReconnectAttempts
0
Maximum number of time the transport will attempt to reconnect before failing when there has never been a connection made. (0 means infinite retries) (included in NMS.ActiveMQ v1.5.0+)
transport.reconnectDelay
10
The delay in milliseconds that the transport waits before attempting a reconnection.
transport.backup
false
Should the Failover transport maintain hot backups.
transport.backupPoolSize
1
If enabled, how many hot backup connections are made.
transport.trackMessages
false
keep a cache of in-flight messages that will flushed to a broker on reconnect
transport.maxCacheSize
256
Number of messages that are cached if trackMessages is enabled.
transport.updateURIsSupported
true
Update the list of known brokers based on BrokerInfo messages sent to the client.

Connection Options

Connection options can either be set using either the connection. prefix or the nms. prefix (in a similar way to the Java client's jms. prefixed settings).
Option Name
Default
Description
connection.AsyncSend
false
Are message sent Asynchronously.
connection.AsyncClose
true
Should the close command be sent Asynchronously
connection.AlwaysSyncSend
false
Causes all messages a Producer sends to be sent Asynchronously.
connection.CopyMessageOnSend
true
Copies the Message objects a Producer sends so that the client can reuse Message objects without affecting an in-flight message.
connection.ProducerWindowSize
0
The ProducerWindowSize is the maximum number of bytes in memory that a producer will transmit to a broker before waiting for acknowledgement messages from the broker that it has accepted the previously sent messages. In other words, this how you configure the producer flow control window that is used for async sends where the client is responsible for managing memory usage. The default value of 0 means no flow control at the client. See also Producer Flow Control
connection.useCompression
false
Should message bodies be compressed before being sent.
connection.sendAcksAsync
false
Should message acks be sent asynchronously
connection.messagePrioritySupported
true
Should messages be delivered to the client based on the value of the Message Priority header.
connection.dispatchAsync
false
Should the broker dispatch messages asynchronously to the connection's consumers.
connection.watchTopicAdvisories
true
Should the client watch for advisory messages from the broker to track the creation and deletion of temporary destinations.

OpenWire options

The following options are used to configure the OpenWire protocol:
Option Name
Default
Description
wireFormat.stackTraceEnabled
false
Should the stack trace of exception that occur on the broker be sent to the client? Only used by openwire protocol.
wireFormat.cacheEnabled
false
Should commonly repeated values be cached so that less marshalling occurs? Only used by openwire protocol.
wireFormat.tcpNoDelayEnabled
false
Does not affect the wire format, but provides a hint to the peer that TCP nodelay should be enabled on the communications Socket. Only used by openwire protocol.
wireFormat.sizePrefixDisabled
false
Should serialized messages include a payload length prefix? Only used by openwire protocol.
wireFormat.tightEncodingEnabled
false
Should wire size be optimized over CPU usage? Only used by the openwire protocol.
wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration
30000
The maximum inactivity duration (before which the socket is considered dead) in milliseconds. On some platforms it can take a long time for a socket to appear to die, so we allow the broker to kill connections if they are inactive for a period of time. Use by some transports to enable a keep alive heart beat feature. Set to a value <= 0 to disable inactivity monitoring.
maxInactivityDurationInitalDelay
10000
The initial delay in starting the maximum inactivity checks (and, yes, the word 'Inital' is supposed to be misspelled like that)

Destination configuration

A destination URI can be configured as shown in the following example:
d = session.CreateTopic("com.foo?consumer.prefetchSize=2000&consumer.noLocal=true");

General options

The following destination URI options are generally supported for all protocols:
Option Name
Default
Description
consumer.prefetchSize
1000
The number of message the consumer will prefetch.
consumer.maximumPendingMessageLimit
0
Use to control if messages are dropped if a slow consumer situation exists.
consumer.noLocal
false
Same as the noLocal flag on a Topic consumer. Exposed here so that it can be used with a queue.
consumer.dispatchAsync
false
Should the broker dispatch messages asynchronously to the consumer.
consumer.retroactive
false
consumer.selector
null
JMS Selector used with the consumer.
consumer.exclusive
false
Is this an Exclusive Consumer.
consumer.priority
0
Allows you to configure a Consumer Priority.

OpenWire specific options

The following destination URI options are supported only for the OpenWire protocol:
Option Name
Default
Description
consumer.browser
false
consumer.networkSubscription
false
consumer.optimizedAcknowledge
false
Enables an optimised acknowledgement mode where messages are acknowledged in batches rather than individually. Alternatively, you could use Session.DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE acknowledgement mode for the consumers which can often be faster. WARNING: enabling this issue could cause some issues with auto-acknowledgement on reconnection
consumer.noRangeAcks
false
consumer.retroactive
false
Sets whether or not retroactive consumers are enabled. Retroactive consumers allow non-durable topic subscribers to receive old messages that were published before the non-durable subscriber started.
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