Restarting activemq route in camel when receiving a "Connection.start()" message - activemq

I have a an activemq camel route that stops receiving messages at some point and requires a restart. I am not sure how to programmatically detect and fix this situation.
My route looks like so:
from("activemq:queue:Consumer.app.VirtualTopic.msg?messageConverter=#convertMsg")
It's all configured in Spring like so:
<!-- Configure the Message Bus Factory -->
<bean id="jmsFactory" class="com.local.messaging.activemq.SpringSslContextConnectionFactory">
<property name="brokerURL" value="${jms.broker.url}" />
<property name="sslContext" ref="sslContext" />
</bean>
<!-- Connect the Message Bus Factory to Camel. The 'activemq' bean
name is necessary for Camel to pick it up automatically -->
<bean id="activemq" class="org.apache.activemq.camel.component.ActiveMQComponent" depends-on="jmsFactory">
<property name="usePooledConnection" value="true" />
<property name="connectionFactory">
<bean class="org.apache.activemq.pool.PooledConnectionFactory">
<property name="maxConnections" value="20" />
<property name="maximumActive" value="10" />
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="jmsFactory" />
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
Finally, the broker URL is configured like so:
jms.broker.url=failover://(ssl://amq1:61616,ssl://amq1:61616)
This starts up just fine and works like a champ most of the time. Every so often, though, I see this message in the logs:
Received a message on a connection which is not yet started. Have you forgotten to call Connection.start()? Connection: ActiveMQConnection {<details>}
I suspect strongly that this happens after the message bus has restarted, but as I have no direct access to the message bus, I don't know that for certain. I don't know that that matters.
The keys for me are:
How do I programmatically detect this situation? There doesn't appear to be any exception thrown or the like and the only way I've seen this is by parsing through log files.
After detecting it, how do I fix it? Do I need to start() and stop() the route or is there a cleaner way?
Finally, I did see some suggestions that this case should be handled by activemq, using the failover scheme. As shown above, I am using failover and this still happens.

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ActiveMQ connection in Fabric8 using Blueprint instead of DS

In Fabric8, the preferred way to obtain an ActiveMQ connection is via the mq-fabric profile, which provides an ActitveMQConnection object via Declarative Services. An example of this is given on GitHub, which works just fine.
However, I've yet to find a way for Declarative Services and Blueprint Services to collaborate in Fabric8 (or any OSGI-environment, really), thus, my OSGI application must either use DS or blueprint. Mixing both doesn't seem to be an option.
If you want to use blueprint (which I do), you must first create a broker through the web UI, then go back to the console and type cluster-list, finding the port that Fabric8 assigned to the broker and then configure a connection in blueprint like so:
<bean id="activemqConnectionFactory" class="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory">
<property name="brokerURL" value="tcp://mydomain:33056" />
<property name="userName" value="admin" />
<property name="password" value="admin" />
</bean>
While this does work, it's not exactly deployment-friendly, as it involves a few manual steps that I'd like to avoid if possible. The main issue is that I don't know what that port is going to be. I've combed through the config files and couldn't find it anywhere.
Is there a cleaner, more automated way to obtain an ActiveMQ connection in Fabric8 via blueprint, or must we use Declarative Services?
Stumbled across a solution to this issue in the fabric-camel-demo, which illustrates how to instantiate an ActiveMQConnectionFactory bean in Fabric8 via Blueprint.
<!-- use the fabric protocol in the brokerURL to connect to the ActiveMQ broker registered as default name -->
<!-- notice we could have used amq as the component name in Camel, and avoid any configuration at all,
as the amq component is provided out of the box when running in fabric -->
<bean id="jmsConnectionFactory" class="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory">
<property name="brokerURL" value="discovery:(fabric:default)"/>
<property name="userName" value="admin"/>
<property name="password" value="admin"/>
</bean>
Hope this helps!

Properly Shutting Down ActiveMQ and Spring DefaultMessageListenerContainer

Our system will not shutdown when a "Stop" command is issued from the Tomcat Manager. I have determined that it is related to ActiveMQ/Spring. I have even figured out how to get it to shutdown, however my solution is a hack (at least I hope this isn't the "correct" way to do it). I would like to know the proper way to shutdown ActiveMQ so that I can remove my hack.
I inherited this component and I have no information about why certain architectural decisions were made, after a lot of digging I think I understand his thoughts, but I could be missing something. In other words, the real problem could be in the way that we are trying to use ActiveMQ/Spring.
We run in ServletContainer (Tomcat 6/7) and use ActiveMQ 5.9.1 and Spring 3.0.0 Multiple instances of our application can run in a "group", with each instance running on it's own server. ActiveMQ is used to facilitate communication between the multiple instances. Each instance has it's own embedded broker and it's own set of queues. Every queue on every instance has exactly 1 org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer listening to it, so 5 queues = 5 DefaultMessageListenerContainers for example.
Our system shut down properly until we fixed a bug by adding queuePrefetch="0" to the ConnectionFactory. At first I assumed that this change was incorrect in some way, but now that I understand the situation, I am confident that we should not be using the prefetch functionality.
I have created a test application to replicate the issue. Note that the information below makes no mention of message producers. That is because I can replicate the issue without ever sending/processing a single message. Simply creating the Broker, ConnectionFactory, Queues and Listeners during boot, is enough to keep the system from stopping properly.
Here is my sample configuration from my Spring XML. I will be happy to provide my entire project if someone wants it:
<amq:broker persistent="false" id="mybroker">
<amq:transportConnectors>
<amq:transportConnector uri="tcp://0.0.0.0:61616"/>
</amq:transportConnectors>
</amq:broker>
<amq:connectionFactory id="ConnectionFactory" brokerURL="vm://localhost?broker.persistent=false" >
<amq:prefetchPolicy>
<amq:prefetchPolicy queuePrefetch="0"/>
</amq:prefetchPolicy>
</amq:connectionFactory>
<amq:queue id="lookup.mdb.queue.cat" physicalName="DogQueue"/>
<amq:queue id="lookup.mdb.queue.dog" physicalName="CatQueue"/>
<amq:queue id="lookup.mdb.queue.fish" physicalName="FishQueue"/>
<bean id="messageListener" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer" abstract="true">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="ConnectionFactory"/>
</bean>
<bean parent="messageListener" id="cat">
<property name="destination" ref="lookup.mdb.queue.dog"/>
<property name="messageListener">
<bean class="com.acteksoft.common.remote.jms.WorkerMessageListener"/>
</property>
<property name="concurrentConsumers" value="200"/>
<property name="maxConcurrentConsumers" value="200"/>
</bean>
<bean parent="messageListener" id="dog">
<property name="destination" ref="lookup.mdb.queue.cat"/>
<property name="messageListener">
<bean class="com.acteksoft.common.remote.jms.WorkerMessageListener"/>
</property>
<property name="concurrentConsumers" value="200"/>
<property name="maxConcurrentConsumers" value="200"/>
</bean>
<bean parent="messageListener" id="fish">
<property name="destination" ref="lookup.mdb.queue.fish"/>
<property name="messageListener">
<bean class="com.acteksoft.common.remote.jms.WorkerMessageListener"/>
</property>
<property name="concurrentConsumers" value="200"/>
<property name="maxConcurrentConsumers" value="200"/>
</bean>
My hack involves using a ServletContextListener to manually stop the objects. The hacky part is that I have to create additional threads to stop the DefaultMessageListenerContainers. Perhaps I'm stopping the objects in the wrong order, but I've tried everything that I can imagine. If I attempt to stop the objects in the main thread, then they hang indefinitely.
Thank you in advance!
UPDATE
I have tried the following based on boday's recommendation but it didn't work. I have also tried to specify the amq:transportConnector uri as tcp://0.0.0.0:61616?transport.daemon=true
<amq:broker persistent="false" id="mybroker" brokerName="localhost">
<amq:transportConnectors>
<amq:transportConnector uri="tcp://0.0.0.0:61616?daemon=true"/>
</amq:transportConnectors>
</amq:broker>
<amq:connectionFactory id="connectionFactory" brokerURL="vm://localhost" >
<amq:prefetchPolicy>
<amq:prefetchPolicy queuePrefetch="0"/>
</amq:prefetchPolicy>
</amq:connectionFactory>
At one point I tried to add similar properties to the brokerUrl parameter in the amq:connectionFactory element and the shutdown worked properly, however after further testing I learned that the properties were resulting in an exception to be thrown from VMTransportFactory. This resulted in improper initialization and the basic message functionality didn't work.
In case anyone else is wondering, as far as I can see it's not possible to have a daemon ListenerContainer using ActiveMQ.
When the ActiveMQConnection is started, it creates a ThreadPoolExecutor with non-daemon thread. This is seemingly to avoid issues when failing over the connection from one broker to another.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-796
executor = new ThreadPoolExecutor(1, 1, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS, new LinkedBlockingQueue<Runnable>(), new ThreadFactory() {
#Override
public Thread newThread(Runnable r) {
Thread thread = new Thread(r, "ActiveMQ Connection Executor: " + transport);
//Don't make these daemon threads - see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-796
//thread.setDaemon(true);
return thread;
}
});
try setting daemon=true on your TCP transport, this allows the process to run as a deamon thread which won't block the shutdown of your container
see http://activemq.apache.org/tcp-transport-reference.html

How to consume message from the endpoint in Apache Camel?

I had created a message with a topic name and set some information with key/value pair and sent the message to the MessageBus (i.e, produced the message to an endPoint - in my case endpoint is a messageBus).
How can consume the message from that endPoint? I know the uri, endpoint. what configurations needs to be done for my consumer ( any camel XML changes to done ?).
Please help.
see the camel-jms page for details, but you basically need to do some basic Spring XML to configure the ActiveMQ connection and then establish your route...
from("activemq:queue:inboundQueue").bean(MyConsumerBean.class);
<bean id="activemq" class="org.apache.activemq.camel.component.ActiveMQComponent">
<property name="connectionFactory">
<bean class="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory">
<property name="brokerURL" value="vm://localhost?broker.persistent=false&broker.useJmx=false"/>
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
see these unit test for more information...
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/trunk/components/camel-jms/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/jms/JmsRouteTest.java
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/trunk/components/camel-jms/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/jms/jmsRouteUsingSpring.xml

How to set the ActiveMQ redeliveryPolicy on a queue?

How do I set the redeliveryPolicy in ActiveMQ on a Queue?
1) In the doc, see: activeMQ Redelivery, the explain that you should set it on the ConnectionFactory or Connection. But I want to use different value's for different Queue's.
2) Apart from that, I don't seem to get it work. Setting it on the connection factory in Spring (I am using activemq 5.4.2. with Spring 3.0) like this don't seem to have any effect:
<amq:connectionFactory id="amqConnectionFactory" brokerURL="${jms.factory.url}" >
<amq:properties>
<amq:redeliveryPolicy maximumRedeliveries="6" initialRedeliveryDelay="15000" useExponentialBackOff="true" backOffMultiplier="5"/>
</amq:properties>
</amq:connectionFactory>
I also tried to set it as property on the defined Queue, but that also seem to be ignored as the redelivery occurs sooner that the defined values:
<amq:queue id="jmsQueueDeclarationSnd" physicalName="${jms.queue.declaration.snd}" >
<amq:properties>
<amq:redeliveryPolicy maximumRedeliveries="6" initialRedeliveryDelay="15000" useExponentialBackOff="true" backOffMultiplier="5"/>
</amq:properties>
</amq:queue>
Thanks
I too was using the method shown by Ivan above for amq:connectionFactory
Whilst upgrading to ActiveMQ 5.7.0 I noticed this no longer works (since the implementation of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3224). Anyway after reading a better post on the ActiveMQ forums I currently use :-
<amq:queue id="emailQueue" physicalName="emailQueue" />
<amq:queue id="smsQueue" physicalName="smsQueue" />
<!-- Wait 15 seconds first re-delivery, then 45, 135, 405, 1215, 3645 seconds -->
<bean id="redeliveryPolicy" class="org.apache.activemq.RedeliveryPolicy">
<property name="backOffMultiplier" value="3" />
<property name="initialRedeliveryDelay" value="15000" />
<property name="maximumRedeliveries" value="6" />
<property name="queue" value="*" />
<property name="redeliveryDelay" value="15000" />
<property name="useExponentialBackOff" value="true" />
</bean>
<amq:connectionFactory id="jmsFactory" brokerURL="yourProtocol/BrokerURL">
<property name="redeliveryPolicy" ref="redeliveryPolicy" />
</amq:connectionFactory>
Note that for any messages that fail to be redelivered after 6 retries, ActiveMQ will create a DLQ.emailQueue' or DLQ.smsQueue and enqueue the message on that queue (dequeuing it from the original queue).
I got it working by setting it on the factory as done above but only when creating the connection factory as a Spring bean and not through XBean as shown above. This is because the xsd doesn't allow you to set the redeliveryPolicy as an object, but merely as a String.
After setting the cache level to Consumer in Spring's DefaultMessageListenerContainer, it all worked.
On the queue , it seems that you simple can set a delivery policy... Strange, as I would like to have different settings for different queue's/topics. Just imagine you have a slow and faster queue, or a external system that you connect to that needs more time to recover..
Maybe this feature is still to be implemented
You can set the redeliveryPolicy within the amq namespace like this:
<amq:connectionFactory id="jmsRedeliverConnectionFactory" brokerURL="vm://localhost">
<amq:redeliveryPolicy>
<amq:redeliveryPolicy maximumRedeliveries="5" initialRedeliveryDelay="1000" useExponentialBackOff="true" backOffMultiplier="5" />
</amq:redeliveryPolicy>
</amq:connectionFactory>
I could not get ActiveMQ (5.7.0) to recognize my redelivery policy when I defined it using <amq:properties> on the ConnectionFactory or the Queue (it kept using the default redelivery policy). What worked for me is this:
Create the RedeliveryPolicy as a standalone bean, then Spring-reference it in the ConnectionFactory
Create an explicit DLQ and Spring-reference it in the RedeliveryPolicy
Spring config as follows:
<amq:connectionFactory id="jmsFactory" brokerURL="vm://localhost" redeliveryPolicy="#activeMQRedeliveryPolicy" />
<amq:redeliveryPolicy id="activeMQRedeliveryPolicy" destination="#myDLQ" useExponentialBackOff="true" backOffMultiplier="3" maximumRedeliveries="4" />
<amq:queue id="myDLQ" physicalName="DLQ.myDLQ" />

Apache Camel with IBM MQ

Hello has anyone ever used Camel with IBM's MQ. We are looking at possibly using the two products together but have no example of the two products working together.
I have extensive use of IBM MQ's with camel. There is no issue using both together. I will paste a sample configuration from one of my spring context files leveraging a camel Jms Endpoint, A spring connection factory, and an IBM MQ definition.
Camel Route
from("someplace")
.to("cpaibmmq:queue:myQueueName");
Spring Context
<bean name="cpaibmmq" class="org.apache.camel.component.jms.JmsComponent" destroy-method="doStop">
<property name="transacted" value="${jms.transacted}" />
<property name="concurrentConsumers" value="${cpa.concurrentConsumers}" />
<property name="maxConcurrentConsumers" value="${cpa.concurrentConsumers}" />
<property name="acceptMessagesWhileStopping" value="${jms.acceptMessagesWhileStopping}" />
<property name="acknowledgementModeName" value="${jms.acknowledgementModeName}" />
<property name="cacheLevelName" value="${jms.cacheLevelName}" />
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="ibmFac1" />
<property name="exceptionListener" ref="ibmFac1" />
</bean>
<bean id="ibmFac1" class="org.springframework.jms.connection.SingleConnectionFactory" destroy-method="destroy">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnectionFactory">
<property name="transportType" value="1" />
<property name="channel" value="${cpa.wmq.channel}" />
<property name="hostName" value="${cpa.wmq.hostname}" />
<property name="port" value="${cpa.wmq.port}" />
<property name="queueManager" value="${cpa.wmq.mqmanager}" />
</bean>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
The best I have been able to get is documented below, illustrated as a Spring XML application context that itself hosts the CAMEL context and routes. This sample works with the IBM native MQ JCA-compliant resource adapter v7.5, CAMEL 2.16, Spring core 4.2. I have deployed it in Glassfish, Weblogic, and JBoss EAP7 servers.
The complexity is bound to handling the flow of MQ reports whose philosophy conflicts with that of a plain JMS reply-to message. For a detailed explanation, please refer to Implementing native websphere MQ with CoD over Camel JMS component
This example based on the CAMEL XML DSL is self-contained and easy to test.
We start with Spring & CAMEL declarations:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:camel="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.0.xsd">
The CAMEL context follows with 2 routes: MQ to JMS and JMS to MQ, here chained to form a bridge to ease testing.
<camel:camelContext id="mqBridgeCtxt">
<camel:route id="mq2jms" autoStartup="true">
Weird: on Weblogic, the only way to get (e.g.) 3 listeners is to enforce 3 connections (with 3 Camel:from statements in sequence) with max 1 session each, otherwise an MQ error ensues: MQJCA1018: Only one session per connection is allowed. On JBoss, you can simply adjust concurrentConsumers=...
<camel:from uri="wmq:queue:TEST.Q1?concurrentConsumers=1&disableReplyTo=true&
acknowledgementModeName=SESSION_TRANSACTED"/>
The disable disableReplyTo option above ensures that CAMEL will not produce a reply before we can test the MQ message type to be 1=Request(-reply) or 8=datagram (one way!). That test and reply construction is not illustrated here.
Then we enforce the EIP to InOnly on the next posting to plain JMS to be consistent with the Inbound MQ mode.
<camel:setExchangePattern pattern="InOnly"/>
<!-- camel:process ref="reference to your MQ message processing bean fits here" / -->
<camel:to uri="ref:innerQueue" />
</camel:route>
This ends the MQ-to-jms route; next comes the jms-to-MQ route still in the same CAMEL context:
<camel:route id="jms2mq" autoStartup="true">
<camel:from uri="ref:innerQueue" />
<!-- remove inner message headers and properties to test without inbound side effects! -->
<camel:removeHeaders pattern="*"/>
<camel:removeProperties pattern="*" />
<!-- camel:process ref="reference to your MQ message preparation bean fits here" / -->
Now comes the request flag for the MQ CoD report to be returned by remote destination. We also enforce the MQ message to be of Datagram type (value 8).
<camel:setHeader headerName="JMS_IBM_Report_COD"><camel:simple resultType="java.lang.Integer">2048</camel:simple></camel:setHeader>
<camel:setHeader headerName="JMS_IBM_Report_Pass_Correl_ID"><camel:simple resultType="java.lang.Integer">64</camel:simple></camel:setHeader>
<camel:setHeader headerName="JMS_IBM_MsgType"><camel:simple resultType="java.lang.Integer">8</camel:simple></camel:setHeader>
The ReplyTo queue can be specified either via the ReplyTo uri option, else as a header as below.
Next we do use CamelJmsDestinationName header to enforce suppressing of the JMS MQ message header MQRFH2 (using targetClient MQ URL option value 1). In other words, we want to send a plain vanilla MQ binary message (i.e. Only the MQMD message descriptor followed by the payload).
<camel:setHeader headerName="JMSReplyTo"><camel:constant>TEST.REPLYTOQ</camel:constant></camel:setHeader>
<camel:setHeader headerName="CamelJmsDestinationName"> <camel:constant>queue://MYQMGR/TEST.Q2?targetClient=1</camel:constant></camel:setHeader>
More MQMD fields may be controlled through reserved JMS properties as illustrated below. See restrictions in IBM doc.
<camel:setHeader headerName="JMS_IBM_Format"><camel:constant>MQSTR </camel:constant></camel:setHeader>
<camel:setHeader headerName="JMSCorrelationID"><camel:constant>_PLACEHOLDER_24_CHARS_ID_</camel:constant></camel:setHeader>
The destination queue in the URI is overwritten by the CamelJmsDestinationName above, hence the queue name in the URI becomes a placeholder.
The URI option preserveMessageQos is the one that - as observed - allows sending a message with the ReplyTo data being set (to get the MQ CoD Report), yet prevent CAMEL to instantiate a Reply message listener by enforcing the InOnly MEP.
<camel:to uri="wmq:queue:PLACEHOLDER.Q.NAME?concurrentConsumers=1&
exchangePattern=InOnly&preserveMessageQos=true&
includeSentJMSMessageID=true" />
</camel:route>
</camel:camelContext>
We have not finished, we have still to declare our queue factories for both a native JMS provider and Websphere MQ (via the native IBM WMQ JCA Resource Adapter), to be adjusted to your context.
We use here JNDI lookups on administrative objects.
<camel:endpoint id="innerQueue" uri="jmsloc:queue:transitQueue">
</camel:endpoint>
<jee:jndi-lookup id="mqQCFBean" jndi-name="jms/MYQMGR_QCF"/>
<jee:jndi-lookup id="jmsraQCFBean" jndi-name="jms/jmsra_QCF"/>
<bean id="jmsloc" class="org.apache.camel.component.jms.JmsComponent">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="jmsraQCFBean" />
</bean>
<bean id="wmq" class="org.apache.camel.component.jms.JmsComponent">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="mqQCFBean" />
</bean>
</beans>
An alternative to fetching the factories (and JCA adapters) from JNDI is to declare the JMS client as Spring beans. In Weblogic and Glassfish, you'll be better inspired by deploying the native IBM JCA resource adapter and creating JNDI resources then referenced in the Spring Context as above, in JBoss a direct MQ client bean declaration suits best as below)
<bean id="mqCFBean" class="com.ibm.mq.jms.MQXAConnectionFactory">
<property name="hostName" value="${mqHost}"/>
<property name="port" value="${mqPort}"/>
<property name="queueManager" value="${mqQueueManager}"/>
<property name="channel" value="${mqChannel}"/>
<property name="transportType" value="1"/> <!-- This parameter is fixed and compulsory to work with pure MQI java libraries -->
<property name="appName" value="${connectionName}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="wmq" class="org.apache.camel.component.jms.JmsComponent">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="mqCFBean"/>
<property name="transacted" value="true"/>
<property name="acknowledgementModeName" value="AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE"/>
</bean>
Comments and improvements welcome.
A quick google revealed following,
http://lowry-techie.blogspot.de/2010/11/camel-integration-with-websphere-mq.html
HTH