Chapter 28. Configuring Core Bridges

The function of a bridge is to consume messages from one destination and forward them to another one, typically on a different JBoss EAP messaging server.

The source and target servers do not have to be in the same cluster which makes bridging suitable for reliably sending messages from one cluster to another, for instance across a WAN, or internet and where the connection may be unreliable.

The bridge has built-in resilience to failure so if the target server connection is lost, for example, due to network failure, the bridge will retry connecting to the target until it comes back online. When it comes back online it will resume operation as normal.

Bridges are a way to reliably connect two separate JBoss EAP messaging servers together. With a core bridge both source and target servers must be JBoss EAP 7 messaging servers.

Below is an example configuration of a JBoss EAP messaging core bridge.

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:messaging-activemq:4.0">
  <server name="default">
    ...
    <bridge name="my-core-bridge" static-connectors="bridge-connector" queue-name="jms.queue.InQueue"/>
    ...
  </server>
</subsystem>

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:messaging-activemq:4.0">
  <server name="default">
    ...
    <bridge name="my-core-bridge" static-connectors="bridge-connector" queue-name="jms.queue.InQueue"/>
    ...
  </server>
</subsystem>

This core bridge can be added using the following management CLI command. Note that when defining a core bridge, you must define a queue-name and either static-connectors or discovery-group. See the table in the appendix for a full list of configurable attributes.

/subsystem=messaging-activemq/server=default/bridge=my-core-bridge:add(static-connectors=[bridge-connector],queue-name=jms.queue.InQueue)

/subsystem=messaging-activemq/server=default/bridge=my-core-bridge:add(static-connectors=[bridge-connector],queue-name=jms.queue.InQueue)

/subsystem=messaging-activemq/server=default/bridge=my-core-bridge:write-attribute(name=use-duplicate-detection,value=true)

/subsystem=messaging-activemq/server=default/bridge=my-core-bridge:write-attribute(name=use-duplicate-detection,value=true)