JMS message consumption isn't happening outside of a bean - glassfish

Question

I'm running through a Glassfish web process and I need a non-container managed class (EJBUserManager) to be able to receive messages from a MessageDrivenBean. The class has the javax.jms.Queues and connection factories and I can write to the Queues. The queue sends to a MessageDrivenBean (AccountValidatorBean) that receives the code correctly, and then writes back a message. But the EJBUserManager attempts to read from the queue and never receives the message.
#Override
public boolean doesExist(String username) throws FtpException {
LOGGER.finer(String.format("Query if username %s exists", username));
QueueConnection queueConnection = null;
boolean doesExist = false;
try {
queueConnection = connectionFactory.createQueueConnection();
final UserManagerMessage userManagerMessage =
new UserManagerMessage(UserManagerQueryCommands.VALIDATE_USER, username);
final Session session = queueConnection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
final ObjectMessage objectMessage = session.createObjectMessage(userManagerMessage);
session.createProducer(accountValidatorQueue).send(objectMessage);
session.close();
queueConnection.close();
queueConnection = connectionFactory.createQueueConnection();
final QueueSession queueSession =
queueConnection.createQueueSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
LOGGER.finest(String.format("Right before doesExist receive for username %s", username));
final Message firstAttemptMessage = queueSession.createConsumer(userManagerQueue).receive(3000);
final Message message = firstAttemptMessage != null ?
firstAttemptMessage : queueSession.createConsumer(userManagerQueue).receiveNoWait();
LOGGER.finest(String.format("Right after doesExist receive for username %s", username));
LOGGER.finest(String.format("Is the message null: %b", message != null));
if (message != null && message instanceof StreamMessage) {
final StreamMessage streamMessage = (StreamMessage) message;
doesExist = streamMessage.readBoolean();
}
} catch (JMSException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (queueConnection != null) {
try {
queueConnection.close();
} catch (JMSException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
return doesExist;
}
The above is the code from the EJBUserManager. Now, it can send to the accountValidatorQueue. It just never receives from the userManagerQueue
Here's the code for the AccountValidatorBean
private void validateUser(final String username) {
QueueConnection queueConnection = null;
final String doctype = doctypeLookupDAO.getDocumentTypeForUsername(username);
LOGGER.finest(String.format("Doctype %s for username %s", doctype, username));
try {
queueConnection = queueConnectionFactory.createQueueConnection();
final Session session = queueConnection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
//final StreamMessage message = session.createStreamMessage();
//message.clearBody();
//message.writeBoolean(doctype != null);
//message.reset();
final ObjectMessage message = session.createObjectMessage(Boolean.valueOf(doctype != null));
final MessageProducer messageProducer =
session.createProducer(userManagerQueue);
LOGGER.finest(String.format("Queue name %s of producing queue", userManagerQueue.getQueueName()));
messageProducer.send(message);
LOGGER.finest(String.format("Sending user validate message for user %s", username));
messageProducer.close();
session.close();
} catch (JMSException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (queueConnection != null) {
try {
queueConnection.close();
} catch (JMSException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

Fixed. I needed to call QueueConnection.start() to consume messages from the queue.