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<chapter id="jms">
<title>JMS (Java Message Service)</title>
<section id="jms-introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>Spring provides a JMS integration framework that simplifies the use
of the JMS API much like Spring's integration does for the JDBC
API.</para>
<para>JMS can be roughly divided into two areas of functionality, namely
the production and consumption of messages. The
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname> class is used for message production
and synchronous message reception. For asynchronous reception similar to
Java EE's message-driven bean style, Spring provides a number of message
listener containers that are used to create Message-Driven POJOs
(MDPs).</para>
<para>The package <literal>org.springframework.jms.core</literal> provides
the core functionality for using JMS. It contains JMS template classes
that simplifies the use of the JMS by handling the creation and release of
resources, much like the <classname>JdbcTemplate</classname> does for
JDBC. The design principle common to Spring template classes is to provide
helper methods to perform common operations and for more sophisticated
usage, delegate the essence of the processing task to user implemented
callback interfaces. The JMS template follows the same design. The classes
offer various convenience methods for the sending of messages, consuming a
message synchronously, and exposing the JMS session and message producer
to the user.</para>
<para>The package <literal>org.springframework.jms.support</literal>
provides <classname>JMSException</classname> translation functionality.
The translation converts the checked <classname>JMSException</classname>
hierarchy to a mirrored hierarchy of unchecked exceptions. If there are
any provider specific subclasses of the checked
<classname>javax.jms.JMSException</classname>, this exception is wrapped
in the unchecked <classname>UncategorizedJmsException</classname>.</para>
<para>The package
<literal>org.springframework.jms.support.converter</literal> provides a
<interfacename>MessageConverter</interfacename> abstraction to convert
between Java objects and JMS messages.</para>
<para>The package
<literal>org.springframework.jms.support.destination</literal> provides
various strategies for managing JMS destinations, such as providing a
service locator for destinations stored in JNDI.</para>
<para>Finally, the package
<literal>org.springframework.jms.connection</literal> provides an
implementation of the <classname>ConnectionFactory</classname> suitable
for use in standalone applications. It also contains an implementation of
Spring's <interfacename>PlatformTransactionManager</interfacename> for JMS
(the cunningly named <classname>JmsTransactionManager</classname>). This
allows for seamless integration of JMS as a transactional resource into
Spring's transaction management mechanisms.</para>
</section>
<section id="jms-using">
<title>Using Spring JMS</title>
<section id="jms-jmstemplate">
<title><classname>JmsTemplate</classname></title>
<para>The <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> class is the central class
in the JMS core package. It simplifies the use of JMS since it handles
the creation and release of resources when sending or synchronously
recieving messages.</para>
<para>Code that uses the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> only needs
to implement callback interfaces giving them a clearly defined high
level contract. The <classname>MessageCreator</classname> callback
interface creates a message given a
<interfacename>Session</interfacename> provided by the calling code in
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname>. In order to allow for more complex
usage of the JMS API, the callback
<classname>SessionCallback</classname> provides the user with the JMS
session and the callback <classname>ProducerCallback</classname> exposes
a <interfacename>Session</interfacename> and
<interfacename>MessageProducer</interfacename> pair.</para>
<para>The JMS API exposes two types of send methods, one that takes
delivery mode, priority, and time-to-live as Quality of Service (QOS)
parameters and one that takes no QOS parameters which uses default
values. Since there are many send methods in
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname>, the setting of the QOS parameters
have been exposed as bean properties to avoid duplication in the number
of send methods. Similarly, the timeout value for synchronous receive
calls is set using the property
<classname>setReceiveTimeout</classname>.</para>
<para>Some JMS providers allow the setting of default QOS values
administratively through the configuration of the ConnectionFactory.
This has the effect that a call to
<classname>MessageProducer</classname>'s send method
<methodname>send(Destination destination, Message message)</methodname>
will use different QOS default values than those specified in the JMS
specification. In order to provide consistent management of QOS values,
the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> must therefore be specifically
enabled to use its own QOS values by setting the boolean property
<property>isExplicitQosEnabled</property> to
<literal>true</literal>.</para>
<note>
<para>Instances of the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> class are
<emphasis>thread-safe once configured</emphasis>. This is important
because it means that you can configure a single instance of a
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname> and then safely inject this
<emphasis>shared</emphasis> reference into multiple collaborators. To
be clear, the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> is stateful, in that
it maintains a reference to a
<interfacename>ConnectionFactory</interfacename>, but this state is
<emphasis>not</emphasis> conversational state.</para>
</note>
</section>
<section id="jms-connections">
<title>Connections</title>
<para>The <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> requires a reference to a
<classname>ConnectionFactory</classname>. The
<classname>ConnectionFactory</classname> is part of the JMS
specification and serves as the entry point for working with JMS. It is
used by the client application as a factory to create connections with
the JMS provider and encapsulates various configuration parameters, many
of which are vendor specific such as SSL configuration options.</para>
<para>When using JMS inside an EJB, the vendor provides implementations
of the JMS interfaces so that they can participate in declarative
transaction management and perform pooling of connections and session.
In order to use this implementation, Java EE containers typically require
that you declare a JMS connection factory as a
<property>resource-ref</property> inside the EJB or servlet deployment
descriptors. To ensure the use of these features with the
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname> inside an EJB, the client application
should ensure that it references the managed implementation of the
<classname>ConnectionFactory</classname>.</para>
<section>
<title>Caching Messaging Resources</title>
<para>The standard API involves creating many intermediate objects. To
send a message the following 'API' walk is performed</para>
<programlisting>ConnectionFactory-&gt;Connection-&gt;Session-&gt;MessageProducer-&gt;send</programlisting>
<para>Between the ConnectionFactory and the Send operation there are
three intermediate objects that are created and destroyed. To optimise
the resource usage and increase performance two implementations of
IConnectionFactory are provided.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>SingleConnectionFactory</title>
<para>Spring provides an implementation of the
<classname>ConnectionFactory</classname> interface,
<classname>SingleConnectionFactory</classname>, that will return the
same <classname>Connection</classname> on all
<methodname>createConnection</methodname> calls and ignore calls to
<methodname>close.</methodname> This is useful for testing and
standalone environments so that the same connection can be used for
multiple <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> calls that may span any
number of transactions. <classname>SingleConnectionFactory</classname>
takes a reference to a standard
<classname>ConnectionFactory</classname> that would typically come
from JNDI.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>CachingConnectionFactory</title>
<para>The <classname>CachingConnectionFactory</classname> extends the
functionality of <classname>SingleConnectionFactory</classname> and
adds the caching of Sessions, MessageProducers, and MessageConsumers.
The initial cache size is set to 1, use the property
<property>SessionCacheSize</property> to increase the number of cached
sessions. Note that the number of actual cached sessions will be more
than that number as sessions are cached based on their acknowledgment
mode, so there can be up to 4 cached session instances when
<property>SessionCacheSize</property> is set to one, one for each
AcknowledgementMode. MessageProducers and MessageConsumers are cached
within their owning session and also take into account the unique
properties of the producers and consumers when caching.
MessageProducers are cached based on their destination.
MessageConsumers are cached based on a key composed of the
destination, selector, noLocal delivery flag, and the durable
subscription name (if creating durable consumers).</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="jms-destinations">
<title>Destination Management</title>
<para>Destinations, like ConnectionFactories, are JMS administered
objects that can be stored and retrieved in JNDI. When configuring a
Spring application context you can use the JNDI factory class
<classname>JndiObjectFactoryBean</classname> /
<literal>&lt;jee:jndi-lookup&gt;</literal> to perform dependency
injection on your object's references to JMS destinations. However,
often this strategy is cumbersome if there are a large number of
destinations in the application or if there are advanced destination
management features unique to the JMS provider. Examples of such
advanced destination management would be the creation of dynamic
destinations or support for a hierarchical namespace of destinations.
The <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> delegates the resolution of a
destination name to a JMS destination object to an implementation of the
interface <classname>DestinationResolver</classname>.
<classname>DynamicDestinationResolver</classname> is the default
implementation used by <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> and
accommodates resolving dynamic destinations. A
<classname>JndiDestinationResolver</classname> is also provided that
acts as a service locator for destinations contained in JNDI and
optionally falls back to the behavior contained in
<classname>DynamicDestinationResolver</classname>.</para>
<para>Quite often the destinations used in a JMS application are only
known at runtime and therefore cannot be administratively created when
the application is deployed. This is often because there is shared
application logic between interacting system components that create
destinations at runtime according to a well-known naming convention.
Even though the creation of dynamic destinations are not part of the JMS
specification, most vendors have provided this functionality. Dynamic
destinations are created with a name defined by the user which
differentiates them from temporary destinations and are often not
registered in JNDI. The API used to create dynamic destinations varies
from provider to provider since the properties associated with the
destination are vendor specific. However, a simple implementation choice
that is sometimes made by vendors is to disregard the warnings in the
JMS specification and to use the <classname>TopicSession</classname>
method <methodname>createTopic(String topicName)</methodname> or the
<classname>QueueSession</classname> method
<methodname>createQueue(String queueName)</methodname> to create a new
destination with default destination properties. Depending on the vendor
implementation, <classname>DynamicDestinationResolver</classname> may
then also create a physical destination instead of only resolving
one.</para>
<para>The boolean property <property>pubSubDomain</property> is used to
configure the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> with knowledge of what
JMS domain is being used. By default the value of this property is
false, indicating that the point-to-point domain, Queues, will be used.
This property is used by <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> determines
the behavior of dynamic destination resolution via implementations of
the <interfacename>DestinationResolver</interfacename> interface.</para>
<para>You can also configure the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> with
a default destination via the property
<property>defaultDestination</property>. The default destination will be
used with send and receive operations that do not refer to a specific
destination.</para>
</section>
<section id="jms-mdp">
<title>Message Listener Containers</title>
<para>One of the most common uses of JMS messages in the EJB world is to
drive message-driven beans (MDBs). Spring offers a solution to create
message-driven POJOs (MDPs) in a way that does not tie a user to an EJB
container. (See <xref linkend="jms-asynchronousMessageReception" />
for detailed coverage of Spring's MDP support.)</para>
<para>A message listener container is used to receive messages from a
JMS message queue and drive the MessageListener that is injected into
it. The listener container is responsible for all threading of message
reception and dispatches into the listener for processing. A message
listener container is the intermediary between an MDP and a messaging
provider, and takes care of registering to receive messages,
participating in transactions, resource acquisition and release,
exception conversion and suchlike. This allows you as an application
developer to write the (possibly complex) business logic associated with
receiving a message (and possibly responding to it), and delegates
boilerplate JMS infrastructure concerns to the framework.</para>
<para>There are three standard JMS message listener containers packaged
with Spring, each with its specialised feature set.</para>
<section id="jms-mdp-simple">
<title>SimpleMessageListenerContainer</title>
<para>This message listener container is the simplest of the three
standard flavors. It simply creates a fixed number of JMS sessions at
startup and uses them throughout the lifespan of the container. This
container doesn't allow for dynamic adaption to runtime demands or
participate in externally managed transactions. However, it does have
the fewest requirements on the JMS provider: This listener container
only requires simple JMS API compliance.</para>
</section>
<section id="jms-mdp-default">
<title>DefaultMessageListenerContainer</title>
<para>This message listener container is the one used in most cases.
In contrast to <classname>SimpleMessageListenerContainer</classname>,
this container variant does allow for dynamic adaption to runtime
demands and is able to participate in externally managed transactions.
Each received message is registered with an XA transaction (when
configured with a <classname>JtaTransactionManager</classname>);
processing can take advantage of XA transation semantics. This
listener container strikes a good balance between low requirements on
the JMS provider and good functionality including transaction
participation.</para>
</section>
<section id="jms-mdp-server-session">
<title>ServerSessionMessageListenerContainer</title>
<para>This listener container leverages the JMS ServerSessionPool SPI
to allow for dynamic management of JMS sessions. The use of this
variety of message listener container enables the provider to perform
dynamic runtime tuning but, at the expense of requiring the JMS
provider to support the ServerSessionPool SPI. If there is no need for
provider-driven runtime tuning, look at the
<classname>DefaultMessageListenerContainer</classname> or the
<classname>SimpleMessageListenerContainer</classname> instead.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="jms-tx">
<title>Transaction management</title>
<para>Spring provides a <classname>JmsTransactionManager</classname>
that manages transactions for a single JMS
<classname>ConnectionFactory</classname>. This allows JMS applications
to leverage the managed transaction features of Spring as described in
<xref linkend="transaction" />. The
<classname>JmsTransactionManager</classname> performs local resource
transactions, binding a JMS Connection/Session pair from the specified
<classname>ConnectionFactory</classname> to the thread.
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname> automatically detects such
transactional resources and operates on them accordingly.</para>
<para>In a Java EE environment, the
<classname>ConnectionFactory</classname> will pool Connections and
Sessions, so those resources are efficiently reused across transactions.
In a standalone environment, using Spring's
<classname>SingleConnectionFactory</classname> will result in a shared
JMS <classname>Connection</classname>, with each transaction having its
own independent <classname>Session</classname>. Alternatively, consider
the use of a provider-specific pooling adapter such as ActiveMQ's
<classname>PooledConnectionFactory</classname> class.</para>
<para><classname>JmsTemplate</classname> can also be used with the
<classname>JtaTransactionManager</classname> and an XA-capable JMS
<classname>ConnectionFactory</classname> for performing distributed
transactions. Note that this requires the use of a JTA transaction
manager as well as a properly XA-configured ConnectionFactory! (Check
your Java EE server's / JMS provider's documentation.)</para>
<para>Reusing code across a managed and unmanaged transactional
environment can be confusing when using the JMS API to create a
<classname>Session</classname> from a <classname>Connection</classname>.
This is because the JMS API has only one factory method to create a
<classname>Session</classname> and it requires values for the
transaction and acknowledgement modes. In a managed environment, setting
these values is the responsibility of the environment's transactional
infrastructure, so these values are ignored by the vendor's wrapper to
the JMS Connection. When using the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> in
an unmanaged environment you can specify these values through the use of
the properties <literal>sessionTransacted</literal> and
<literal>sessionAcknowledgeMode</literal>. When using a
<classname>PlatformTransactionManager</classname> with
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname>, the template will always be given a
transactional JMS <classname>Session</classname>.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="jms-sending">
<title>Sending a <interfacename>Message</interfacename></title>
<para>The <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> contains many convenience
methods to send a message. There are send methods that specify the
destination using a <classname>javax.jms.Destination</classname> object
and those that specify the destination using a string for use in a JNDI
lookup. The send method that takes no destination argument uses the
default destination. Here is an example that sends a message to a queue
using the 1.0.2 implementation.</para>
<programlisting language="java">import javax.jms.ConnectionFactory;
import javax.jms.JMSException;
import javax.jms.Message;
import javax.jms.Queue;
import javax.jms.Session;
import org.springframework.jms.core.MessageCreator;
import org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate;
public class JmsQueueSender {
private JmsTemplate jmsTemplate;
private Queue queue;
public void setConnectionFactory(ConnectionFactory cf) {
this.jmsTemplate = new JmsTemplate(cf, false);
}
public void setQueue(Queue queue) {
this.queue = queue;
}
public void simpleSend() {
this.jmsTemplate.send(this.queue, new MessageCreator() {
public Message createMessage(Session session) throws JMSException {
return session.createTextMessage("hello queue world");
}
});
}
}</programlisting>
<para>This example uses the <classname>MessageCreator</classname> callback
to create a text message from the supplied <classname>Session</classname>
object and the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> is constructed by
passing a reference to a <classname>ConnectionFactory</classname> and a
boolean specifying the messaging domain. A zero argument constructor and
<property>connectionFactory</property> / <property>queue</property> bean
properties are provided and can be used for constructing the instance
(using a BeanFactory or plain Java code). Alternatively, consider deriving
from Spring's <classname>JmsGatewaySupport</classname> convenience base
class, which provides pre-built bean properties for JMS
configuration.</para>
<para>The method <methodname>send(String destinationName, MessageCreator
creator)</methodname> lets you send to a message using the string name of
the destination. If these names are registered in JNDI, you should set the
<property>destinationResolver</property> property of the template to an
instance of <classname>JndiDestinationResolver</classname>.</para>
<para>If you created the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> and specified
a default destination, the <methodname>send(MessageCreator c)</methodname>
sends a message to that destination.</para>
<section id="jms-msg-conversion">
<title>Using Message Converters</title>
<para>In order to facilitate the sending of domain model objects, the
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname> has various send methods that take a
Java object as an argument for a message's data content. The overloaded
methods <methodname>convertAndSend</methodname> and
<methodname>receiveAndConvert</methodname> in
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname> delegate the conversion process to an
instance of the <literal>MessageConverter</literal> interface. This
interface defines a simple contract to convert between Java objects and
JMS messages. The default implementation
<classname>SimpleMessageConverter</classname> supports conversion
between <classname>String</classname> and
<classname>TextMessage</classname>, <classname>byte[]</classname> and
<classname>BytesMesssage</classname>, and
<classname>java.util.Map</classname> and
<classname>MapMessage</classname>. By using the converter, you and your
application code can focus on the business object that is being sent or
received via JMS and not be concerned with the details of how it is
represented as a JMS message.</para>
<para>The sandbox currently includes a
<classname>MapMessageConverter</classname> which uses reflection to
convert between a JavaBean and a <classname>MapMessage</classname>.
Other popular implementations choices you might implement yourself are
Converters that use an existing XML marshalling package, such as JAXB,
Castor, XMLBeans, or XStream, to create a
<interfacename>TextMessage</interfacename> representing the
object.</para>
<para>To accommodate the setting of a message's properties, headers, and
body that can not be generically encapsulated inside a converter class,
the <interfacename>MessagePostProcessor</interfacename> interface gives
you access to the message after it has been converted, but before it is
sent. The example below demonstrates how to modify a message header and
a property after a <interfacename>java.util.Map</interfacename> is
converted to a message.</para>
<programlisting language="java">public void sendWithConversion() {
Map map = new HashMap();
map.put("Name", "Mark");
map.put("Age", new Integer(47));
jmsTemplate.convertAndSend("testQueue", map, new MessagePostProcessor() {
public Message postProcessMessage(Message message) throws JMSException {
message.setIntProperty("AccountID", 1234);
message.setJMSCorrelationID("123-00001");
return message;
}
});
}</programlisting>
<para>This results in a message of the form:</para>
<programlisting>MapMessage={
Header={
... standard headers ...
CorrelationID={123-00001}
}
Properties={
AccountID={Integer:1234}
}
Fields={
Name={String:Mark}
Age={Integer:47}
}
}</programlisting>
</section>
<section id="jms-callbacks">
<title><interfacename>SessionCallback</interfacename> and
<interfacename>ProducerCallback</interfacename></title>
<para>While the send operations cover many common usage scenarios, there
are cases when you want to perform multiple operations on a JMS
<interfacename>Session</interfacename> or
<interfacename>MessageProducer</interfacename>. The
<interfacename>SessionCallback</interfacename> and
<interfacename>ProducerCallback</interfacename> expose the JMS
<interfacename>Session</interfacename> and
<interfacename>Session</interfacename> /
<interfacename>MessageProducer</interfacename> pair respectfully. The
<methodname>execute()</methodname> methods on
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname> execute these callback
methods.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="jms-receiving">
<title>Receiving a message</title>
<section id="jms-receiving-sync">
<title>Synchronous Reception</title>
<para>While JMS is typically associated with asynchronous processing, it
is possible to consume messages synchronously. The overloaded
<methodname>receive(..)</methodname> methods provide this functionality.
During a synchronous receive, the calling thread blocks until a message
becomes available. This can be a dangerous operation since the calling
thread can potentially be blocked indefinitely. The property
<property>receiveTimeout</property> specifies how long the receiver
should wait before giving up waiting for a message.</para>
</section>
<section id="jms-asynchronousMessageReception">
<title>Asynchronous Reception - Message-Driven POJOs</title>
<para>In a fashion similar to a Message-Driven Bean (MDB) in the EJB
world, the Message-Driven POJO (MDP) acts as a receiver for JMS
messages. The one restriction (but see also below for the discussion of
the <classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> class) on an MDP is
that it must implement the
<interfacename>javax.jms.MessageListener</interfacename> interface.
Please also be aware that in the case where your POJO will be receiving
messages on multiple threads, it is important to ensure that your
implementation is thread-safe.</para>
<para>Below is a simple implementation of an MDP:</para>
<programlisting language="java">import javax.jms.JMSException;
import javax.jms.Message;
import javax.jms.MessageListener;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;
public class ExampleListener implements MessageListener {
public void onMessage(Message message) {
if (message instanceof TextMessage) {
try {
System.out.println(((TextMessage) message).getText());
}
catch (JMSException ex) {
throw new RuntimeException(ex);
}
}
else {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Message must be of type TextMessage");
}
}
}</programlisting>
<para>Once you've implemented your
<interfacename>MessageListener</interfacename>, it's time to create a
message listener container.</para>
<para>Find below an example of how to define and configure one of the
message listener containers that ships with Spring (in this case the
<classname>DefaultMessageListenerContainer</classname>).</para>
<programlisting language="xml"><lineannotation>&lt;!-- this is the Message Driven POJO (MDP) --&gt;</lineannotation>
&lt;bean id="messageListener" class="jmsexample.ExampleListener" /&gt;
<lineannotation>&lt;!-- and this is the message listener container --&gt;</lineannotation>
&lt;bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer"&gt;
&lt;property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/&gt;
&lt;property name="destination" ref="destination"/&gt;
<emphasis role="bold">&lt;property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener" /&gt;</emphasis>
&lt;/bean&gt;</programlisting>
<para>Please refer to the Spring Javadoc of the various message listener
containers for a full description of the features supported by each
implementation.</para>
</section>
<section id="jms-receiving-async-session-aware-message-listener">
<title>The <interfacename>SessionAwareMessageListener</interfacename>
interface</title>
<para>The <interfacename>SessionAwareMessageListener</interfacename>
interface is a Spring-specific interface that provides a similar
contract the JMS <interfacename>MessageListener</interfacename>
interface, but also provides the message handling method with access to
the JMS <interfacename>Session</interfacename> from which the
<interfacename>Message</interfacename> was received.</para>
<programlisting language="java">package org.springframework.jms.listener;
public interface SessionAwareMessageListener {
void onMessage(Message message, Session session) <emphasis role="bold">throws JMSException</emphasis>;
}</programlisting>
<para>You can choose to have your MDPs implement this interface (in
preference to the standard JMS
<interfacename>MessageListener</interfacename> interface) if you want
your MDPs to be able to respond to any received messages (using the
<interfacename>Session</interfacename> supplied in the
<literal>onMessage(Message, Session)</literal> method). All of the
message listener container implementations that ship wth Spring have
support for MDPs that implement either the
<interfacename>MessageListener</interfacename> or
<interfacename>SessionAwareMessageListener</interfacename> interface.
Classes that implement the
<interfacename>SessionAwareMessageListener</interfacename> come with the
caveat that they are then tied to Spring through the interface. The
choice of whether or not to use it is left entirely up to you as an
application developer or architect.</para>
<para>Please note that the <literal>'onMessage(..)'</literal> method of
the <interfacename>SessionAwareMessageListener</interfacename> interface
throws <classname>JMSException</classname>. In contrast to the standard
JMS <interfacename>MessageListener</interfacename> interface, when using
the <interfacename>SessionAwareMessageListener</interfacename>
interface, it is the responsibility of the client code to handle any
exceptions thrown.</para>
</section>
<section id="jms-receiving-async-message-listener-adapter">
<title>The <classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname></title>
<para>The <classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> class is the
final component in Spring's asynchronous messaging support: in a
nutshell, it allows you to expose almost <emphasis>any</emphasis> class
as a MDP (there are of course some constraints).</para>
<para>Consider the following interface definition. Notice that although
the interface extends neither the
<interfacename>MessageListener</interfacename> nor
<interfacename>SessionAwareMessageListener</interfacename> interfaces,
it can still be used as a MDP via the use of the
<classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> class. Notice also how the
various message handling methods are strongly typed according to the
<emphasis>contents</emphasis> of the various
<interfacename>Message</interfacename> types that they can receive and
handle.</para>
<programlisting language="java">public interface MessageDelegate {
void handleMessage(String message);
void handleMessage(Map message);
void handleMessage(byte[] message);
void handleMessage(Serializable message);
}</programlisting>
<programlisting language="java">public class DefaultMessageDelegate implements MessageDelegate {
<lineannotation>// implementation elided for clarity...</lineannotation>
}</programlisting>
<para>In particular, note how the above implementation of the
<interfacename>MessageDelegate</interfacename> interface (the above
<classname>DefaultMessageDelegate</classname> class) has
<emphasis>no</emphasis> JMS dependencies at all. It truly is a POJO that
we will make into an MDP via the following configuration.</para>
<programlisting language="xml"><lineannotation>&lt;!-- this is the Message Driven POJO (MDP) --&gt;</lineannotation>
<emphasis role="bold">&lt;bean id="messageListener" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.adapter.MessageListenerAdapter"&gt;
&lt;constructor-arg&gt;
&lt;bean class="jmsexample.DefaultMessageDelegate"/&gt;
&lt;/constructor-arg&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;</emphasis>
<lineannotation>&lt;!-- and this is the message listener container... --&gt;</lineannotation>
&lt;bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer"&gt;
&lt;property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/&gt;
&lt;property name="destination" ref="destination"/&gt;
<emphasis role="bold">&lt;property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener" /&gt;</emphasis>
&lt;/bean&gt;</programlisting>
<para>Below is an example of another MDP that can only handle the
receiving of JMS <interfacename>TextMessage</interfacename> messages.
Notice how the message handling method is actually called
<literal>'receive'</literal> (the name of the message handling method in
a <classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> defaults to
<literal>'handleMessage'</literal>), but it is configurable (as you will
see below). Notice also how the <literal>'receive(..)'</literal> method
is strongly typed to receive and respond only to JMS
<interfacename>TextMessage</interfacename> messages.</para>
<programlisting language="java">public interface TextMessageDelegate {
void receive(TextMessage message);
}</programlisting>
<programlisting language="java">public class DefaultTextMessageDelegate implements TextMessageDelegate {
<lineannotation>// implementation elided for clarity...</lineannotation>
}</programlisting>
<para>The configuration of the attendant
<classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> would look like
this:</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;bean id="messageListener" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.adapter.MessageListenerAdapter"&gt;
&lt;constructor-arg&gt;
&lt;bean class="jmsexample.DefaultTextMessageDelegate"/&gt;
&lt;/constructor-arg&gt;
&lt;property name="defaultListenerMethod" value="receive"/&gt;
<lineannotation>&lt;!-- we <emphasis role="bold">don't</emphasis> want automatic message context extraction --&gt;</lineannotation>
&lt;property name="messageConverter"&gt;
&lt;null/&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;</programlisting>
<para>Please note that if the above <literal>'messageListener'</literal>
receives a JMS <interfacename>Message</interfacename> of a type other
than <interfacename>TextMessage</interfacename>, an
<classname>IllegalStateException</classname> will be thrown (and
subsequently swallowed). Another of the capabilities of the
<classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> class is the ability to
automatically send back a response
<interfacename>Message</interfacename> if a handler method returns a
non-void value. Consider the interface and class:</para>
<programlisting language="java">public interface ResponsiveTextMessageDelegate {
<lineannotation><emphasis role="bold">// notice the return type...</emphasis></lineannotation>
String receive(TextMessage message);
}</programlisting>
<programlisting language="java">public class DefaultResponsiveTextMessageDelegate implements ResponsiveTextMessageDelegate {
<lineannotation>// implementation elided for clarity...</lineannotation>
}</programlisting>
<para>If the above
<classname>DefaultResponsiveTextMessageDelegate</classname> is used in
conjunction with a <classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> then
any non-null value that is returned from the execution of the
<literal>'receive(..)'</literal> method will (in the default
configuration) be converted into a
<interfacename>TextMessage</interfacename>. The resulting
<interfacename>TextMessage</interfacename> will then be sent to the
<interfacename>Destination</interfacename> (if one exists) defined in
the JMS Reply-To property of the original
<interfacename>Message</interfacename>, or the default
<interfacename>Destination</interfacename> set on the
<classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> (if one has been
configured); if no <interfacename>Destination</interfacename> is found
then an <classname>InvalidDestinationException</classname> will be
thrown (and please note that this exception <emphasis>will
not</emphasis> be swallowed and <emphasis>will</emphasis> propagate up
the call stack).</para>
</section>
<section id="jms-tx-participation">
<title>Processing messages within transactions</title>
<para>Invoking a message listener within a transaction only requires
reconfiguration of the listener container.</para>
<para>Local resource transactions can simply be activated through the
<literal>sessionTransacted</literal> flag on the listener container
definition. Each message listener invocation will then operate within an
active JMS transaction, with message reception rolled back in case of
listener execution failure. Sending a response message (via
<interfacename>SessionAwareMessageListener</interfacename>) will be part
of the same local transaction, but any other resource operations (such
as database access) will operate independently. This usually requires
duplicate message detection in the listener implementation, covering the
case where database processing has committed but message processing
failed to commit.</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer"&gt;
&lt;property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/&gt;
&lt;property name="destination" ref="destination"/&gt;
&lt;property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener"/&gt;
<emphasis role="bold">&lt;property name="sessionTransacted" value="true"/&gt;</emphasis>
&lt;/bean&gt;</programlisting>
<para>For participating in an externally managed transaction, you will
need to configure a transaction manager and use a listener container
which supports externally managed transactions: typically
<classname>DefaultMessageListenerContainer</classname>.</para>
<para>To configure a message listener container for XA transaction
participation, you'll want to configure a
<classname>JtaTransactionManager</classname> (which, by default,
delegates to the Java EE server's transaction subsystem). Note that the
underlying JMS ConnectionFactory needs to be XA-capable and properly
registered with your JTA transaction coordinator! (Check your Java EE
server's configuration of JNDI resources.) This allows message recepton
as well as e.g. database access to be part of the same transaction (with
unified commit semantics, at the expense of XA transaction log
overhead).</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager"/&gt;
</programlisting>
<para>Then you just need to add it to our earlier container
configuration. The container will take care of the rest.</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer"&gt;
&lt;property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/&gt;
&lt;property name="destination" ref="destination"/&gt;
&lt;property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener"/&gt;
<emphasis role="bold">&lt;property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/&gt;</emphasis>
&lt;/bean&gt;</programlisting>
</section>
</section>
<section id="jms-jca-message-endpoint-manager">
<title>Support for JCA Message Endpoints</title>
<para>Beginning with version 2.5, Spring also provides support for a
JCA-based <interfacename>MessageListener</interfacename> container. The
<classname>JmsMessageEndpointManager</classname> will attempt to
automatically determine the <interfacename>ActivationSpec</interfacename>
class name from the provider's
<interfacename>ResourceAdapter</interfacename> class name. Therefore, it
is typically possible to just provide Spring's generic
<classname>JmsActivationSpecConfig</classname> as shown in the following
example.</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint.JmsMessageEndpointManager"&gt;
&lt;property name="resourceAdapter" ref="resourceAdapter"/&gt;
&lt;property name="activationSpecConfig"&gt;
&lt;bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint.JmsActivationSpecConfig"&gt;
&lt;property name="destinationName" value="myQueue"/&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;property name="messageListener" ref="myMessageListener"/&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;</programlisting>
<para>Alternatively, you may set up a
<classname>JmsMessageEndpointManager</classname> with a given
<interfacename>ActivationSpec</interfacename> object. The
<interfacename>ActivationSpec</interfacename> object may also come from a
JNDI lookup (using <literal>&lt;jee:jndi-lookup&gt;</literal>).</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint.JmsMessageEndpointManager"&gt;
&lt;property name="resourceAdapter" ref="resourceAdapter"/&gt;
&lt;property name="activationSpec"&gt;
&lt;bean class="org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQActivationSpec"&gt;
&lt;property name="destination" value="myQueue"/&gt;
&lt;property name="destinationType" value="javax.jms.Queue"/&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;property name="messageListener" ref="myMessageListener"/&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;</programlisting>
<para>Using Spring's <classname>ResourceAdapterFactoryBean</classname>,
the target <interfacename>ResourceAdapter</interfacename> may be
configured locally as depicted in the following example.</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;bean id="resourceAdapter" class="org.springframework.jca.support.ResourceAdapterFactoryBean"&gt;
&lt;property name="resourceAdapter"&gt;
&lt;bean class="org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQResourceAdapter"&gt;
&lt;property name="serverUrl" value="tcp://localhost:61616"/&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;property name="workManager"&gt;
&lt;bean class="org.springframework.jca.work.SimpleTaskWorkManager"/&gt;
&lt;/property&gt;
&lt;/bean&gt;</programlisting>
<para>The specified <interfacename>WorkManager</interfacename> may also
point to an environment-specific thread pool - typically through
<classname>SimpleTaskWorkManager's</classname> "asyncTaskExecutor"
property. Consider defining a shared thread pool for all your
<interfacename>ResourceAdapter</interfacename> instances if you happen to
use multiple adapters.</para>
<para>In some environments (e.g. WebLogic 9 or above), the entire
<interfacename>ResourceAdapter</interfacename> object may be obtained from
JNDI instead (using <literal>&lt;jee:jndi-lookup&gt;</literal>). The
Spring-based message listeners can then interact with the server-hosted
<interfacename>ResourceAdapter</interfacename>, also using the server's
built-in <interfacename>WorkManager</interfacename>.</para>
<para>Please consult the JavaDoc for
<classname>JmsMessageEndpointManager</classname>,
<classname>JmsActivationSpecConfig</classname>, and
<classname>ResourceAdapterFactoryBean</classname> for more details.</para>
<para>Spring also provides a generic JCA message endpoint manager which is
not tied to JMS:
<classname>org.springframework.jca.endpoint.GenericMessageEndpointManager</classname>.
This component allows for using any message listener type (e.g. a CCI
MessageListener) and any provided-specific ActivationSpec object. Check
out your JCA provider's documentation to find out about the actual
capabilities of your connector, and consult
<classname>GenericMessageEndpointManager</classname>'s JavaDoc for the
Spring-specific configuration details.</para>
<note>
<para>JCA-based message endpoint management is very analogous to EJB 2.1
Message-Driven Beans; it uses the same underlying resource provider
contract. Like with EJB 2.1 MDBs, any message listener interface
supported by your JCA provider can be used in the Spring context as
well. Spring nevertheless provides explicit 'convenience' support for
JMS, simply because JMS is the most common endpoint API used with the
JCA endpoint management contract.</para>
</note>
</section>
<section id="jms-namespace">
<title>JMS Namespace Support</title>
<para>Spring 2.5 introduces an XML namespace for simplifying JMS
configuration. To use the JMS namespace elements you will need to
reference the JMS schema:</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
<emphasis role="bold">xmlns:jms="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms"</emphasis>
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
<emphasis role="bold">http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-3.0.xsd"</emphasis>&gt;
<lineannotation>&lt;!-- <literal>&lt;bean/&gt;</literal> definitions here --&gt;</lineannotation>
&lt;/beans&gt;</programlisting>
<para>The namespace consists of two top-level elements:
<literal>&lt;listener-container/&gt;</literal> and
<literal>&lt;jca-listener-container/&gt;</literal> both of which may
contain one or more <literal>&lt;listener/&gt;</literal> child elements.
Here is an example of a basic configuration for two listeners.</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;jms:listener-container&gt;
&lt;jms:listener destination="queue.orders" ref="orderService" method="placeOrder"/&gt;
&lt;jms:listener destination="queue.confirmations" ref="confirmationLogger" method="log"/&gt;
&lt;/jms:listener-container&gt;</programlisting>
<para>The example above is equivalent to creating two distinct listener
container bean definitions and two distinct
<classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> bean definitions as
demonstrated in <xref linkend="jms-receiving-async-message-listener-adapter" />.
In addition to the attributes shown above, the <literal>listener</literal> element
may contain several optional ones. The following table describes all available
attributes:</para>
<table id="jms-namespace-listener-tbl">
<title>Attributes of the JMS <literal>&lt;listener&gt;</literal>
element</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colname="c1" colwidth="2*" />
<colspec colname="c2" colwidth="4*" />
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Attribute</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>id</entry>
<entry><para>A bean name for the hosting listener container. If
not specified, a bean name will be automatically
generated.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>destination <emphasis
role="bold">(required)</emphasis></entry>
<entry><para>The destination name for this listener, resolved
through the <interfacename>DestinationResolver</interfacename>
strategy.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>ref <emphasis role="bold">(required)</emphasis></entry>
<entry><para>The bean name of the handler object.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>method</entry>
<entry><para>The name of the handler method to invoke. If the
<literal>ref</literal> points to a
<interfacename>MessageListener</interfacename> or Spring
<interfacename>SessionAwareMessageListener</interfacename>, this
attribute may be omitted.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>response-destination</entry>
<entry><para>The name of the default response destination to send
response messages to. This will be applied in case of a request
message that does not carry a "JMSReplyTo" field. The type of this
destination will be determined by the listener-container's
"destination-type" attribute. Note: This only applies to a
listener method with a return value, for which each result object
will be converted into a response message.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>subscription</entry>
<entry><para>The name of the durable subscription, if
any.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>selector</entry>
<entry><para>An optional message selector for this
listener.</para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>The <literal>&lt;listener-container/&gt;</literal> element also
accepts several optional attributes. This allows for customization of the
various strategies (for example, <property>taskExecutor</property> and
<property>destinationResolver</property>) as well as basic JMS settings
and resource references. Using these attributes, it is possible to define
highly-customized listener containers while still benefiting from the
convenience of the namespace.</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;jms:listener-container connection-factory="myConnectionFactory"
task-executor="myTaskExecutor"
destination-resolver="myDestinationResolver"
transaction-manager="myTransactionManager"
concurrency="10"&gt;
&lt;jms:listener destination="queue.orders" ref="orderService" method="placeOrder"/&gt;
&lt;jms:listener destination="queue.confirmations" ref="confirmationLogger" method="log"/&gt;
&lt;/jms:listener-container&gt;</programlisting>
<para>The following table describes all available attributes. Consult the
class-level Javadoc of the
<classname>AbstractMessageListenerContainer</classname> and its concrete
subclasses for more detail on the individual properties. The Javadoc also
provides a discussion of transaction choices and message redelivery
scenarios.</para>
<table id="jms-namespace-listener-container-tbl">
<title>Attributes of the JMS
<literal>&lt;listener-container&gt;</literal> element</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colname="c1" colwidth="2*" />
<colspec colname="c2" colwidth="4*" />
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Attribute</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>container-type</entry>
<entry><para>The type of this listener container. Available
options are: <literal>default</literal>,
<literal>simple</literal>, <literal>default102</literal>, or
<literal>simple102</literal> (the default value is
<literal>'default'</literal>).</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>connection-factory</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to the JMS
<interfacename>ConnectionFactory</interfacename> bean (the default
bean name is
<literal>'connectionFactory'</literal>).</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>task-executor</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to the Spring
<interfacename>TaskExecutor</interfacename> for the JMS listener
invokers.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>destination-resolver</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to the
<interfacename>DestinationResolver</interfacename> strategy for
resolving JMS
<interfacename>Destinations</interfacename>.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>message-converter</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to the
<interfacename>MessageConverter</interfacename> strategy for
converting JMS Messages to listener method arguments. Default is a
<classname>SimpleMessageConverter</classname>.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>destination-type</entry>
<entry><para>The JMS destination type for this listener:
<literal>queue</literal>, <literal>topic</literal> or
<literal>durableTopic</literal>. The default is
<literal>queue</literal>.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>client-id</entry>
<entry><para>The JMS client id for this listener container. Needs
to be specified when using durable subscriptions.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>cache</entry>
<entry><para>The cache level for JMS resources:
<literal>none</literal>, <literal>connection</literal>,
<literal>session</literal>, <literal>consumer</literal> or
<literal>auto</literal>. By default (<literal>auto</literal>), the
cache level will effectively be "consumer", unless an external
transaction manager has been specified - in which case the
effective default will be <literal>none</literal> (assuming
Java EE-style transaction management where the given
ConnectionFactory is an XA-aware pool).</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>acknowledge</entry>
<entry><para>The native JMS acknowledge mode:
<literal>auto</literal>, <literal>client</literal>,
<literal>dups-ok</literal> or <literal>transacted</literal>. A
value of <literal>transacted</literal> activates a locally
transacted <interfacename>Session</interfacename>. As an
alternative, specify the <literal>transaction-manager</literal>
attribute described below. Default is
<literal>auto</literal>.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>transaction-manager</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to an external
<interfacename>PlatformTransactionManager</interfacename>
(typically an XA-based transaction coordinator, e.g. Spring's
<classname>JtaTransactionManager</classname>). If not specified,
native acknowledging will be used (see "acknowledge"
attribute).</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>concurrency</entry>
<entry><para>The number of concurrent sessions/consumers to start
for each listener. Can either be a simple number indicating the
maximum number (e.g. "5") or a range indicating the lower as well
as the upper limit (e.g. "3-5"). Note that a specified minimum is
just a hint and might be ignored at runtime. Default is 1; keep
concurrency limited to 1 in case of a topic listener or if queue
ordering is important; consider raising it for general
queues.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>prefetch</entry>
<entry><para>The maximum number of messages to load into a single
session. Note that raising this number might lead to starvation of
concurrent consumers!</para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>Configuring a JCA-based listener container with the "jms" schema
support is very similar.</para>
<programlisting language="xml">&lt;jms:jca-listener-container resource-adapter="myResourceAdapter"
destination-resolver="myDestinationResolver"
transaction-manager="myTransactionManager"
concurrency="10"&gt;
&lt;jms:listener destination="queue.orders" ref="myMessageListener"/&gt;
&lt;/jms:jca-listener-container&gt;</programlisting>
<para>The available configuration options for the JCA variant are
described in the following table:</para>
<table id="jms-namespace-jca-listener-container-tbl">
<title>Attributes of the JMS
<literal>&lt;jca-listener-container/&gt;</literal> element</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colname="c1" colwidth="2*" />
<colspec colname="c2" colwidth="4*" />
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Attribute</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>resource-adapter</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to the JCA
<interfacename>ResourceAdapter</interfacename> bean (the default
bean name is <literal>'resourceAdapter'</literal>).</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>activation-spec-factory</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to the
<interfacename>JmsActivationSpecFactory</interfacename>. The
default is to autodetect the JMS provider and its
<interfacename>ActivationSpec</interfacename> class (see
<classname>DefaultJmsActivationSpecFactory</classname>)</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>destination-resolver</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to the
<interfacename>DestinationResolver</interfacename> strategy for
resolving JMS <interfacename>Destinations</interfacename>.
</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>message-converter</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to the
<interfacename>MessageConverter</interfacename> strategy for
converting JMS Messages to listener method arguments. Default is a
<classname>SimpleMessageConverter</classname>.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>destination-type</entry>
<entry><para>The JMS destination type for this listener:
<literal>queue</literal>, <literal>topic</literal> or
<literal>durableTopic</literal>. The default is
<literal>queue</literal>.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>client-id</entry>
<entry><para>The JMS client id for this listener container. Needs
to be specified when using durable subscriptions.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>acknowledge</entry>
<entry><para>The native JMS acknowledge mode:
<literal>auto</literal>, <literal>client</literal>,
<literal>dups-ok</literal> or <literal>transacted</literal>. A
value of <literal>transacted</literal> activates a locally
transacted <interfacename>Session</interfacename>. As an
alternative, specify the <literal>transaction-manager</literal>
attribute described below. Default is
<literal>auto</literal>.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>transaction-manager</entry>
<entry><para>A reference to a Spring
<classname>JtaTransactionManager</classname> or a
<interfacename>javax.transaction.TransactionManager</interfacename>
for kicking off an XA transaction for each incoming message. If
not specified, native acknowledging will be used (see the
"acknowledge" attribute).</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>concurrency</entry>
<entry><para>The number of concurrent sessions/consumers to start
for each listener. Can either be a simple number indicating the
maximum number (e.g. "5") or a range indicating the lower as well
as the upper limit (e.g. "3-5"). Note that a specified minimum is
just a hint and will typically be ignored at runtime when using a
JCA listener container. Default is 1.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>prefetch</entry>
<entry><para>The maximum number of messages to load into a single
session. Note that raising this number might lead to starvation of
concurrent consumers!</para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</section>
</chapter>