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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 and shields the user from differences between the JMS 1.0.2
and 1.1 APIs.</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 J2EE's message-driven bean style, Spring
provides a number of message listener containers that are used to create
Message-Driven POJOs (MDPs).</para>
<sidebar>
<title>Domain Unification</title>
<para>There are two major releases of the JMS specification, 1.0.2 and
1.1.</para>
<para>JMS 1.0.2 defined two types of messaging domains, point-to-point
(Queues) and publish/subscribe (Topics). The 1.0.2 API reflected these two
messaging domains by providing a parallel class hierarchy for each domain.
As a result, a client application became domain specific in its use of
the JMS API. JMS 1.1 introduced the concept of domain unification that
minimized both the functional differences and client API differences
between the two domains. As an example of a functional difference that was
removed, if you use a JMS 1.1 provider you can transactionally consume a
message from one domain and produce a message on the other using the same
<interfacename>Session</interfacename>.</para>
<note>
<para>The JMS 1.1 specification was released in April 2002 and
incorporated as part of J2EE 1.4 in November 2003. As a result, common
J2EE 1.3 application servers which are still in widespread use (such as
BEA WebLogic 8.1 and IBM WebSphere 5.1) are based on JMS 1.0.2.</para>
</note>
</sidebar>
<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 JMSException 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>There are two variants of the functionality offered by the
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname>: the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname>
uses the JMS 1.1 API, and the subclass <classname>JmsTemplate102</classname>
uses the JMS 1.0.2 API.</para>
<para>Code that uses the <classname>JmsTemplate</classname> only needs to
implement callback interfaces giving them a clearly defined 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, J2EE 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>
<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 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> 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.
In the 1.0.2 implementation the value of this property determines if the
<classname>JmsTemplate</classname>'s send operations will send a message
to a <interfacename>Queue</interfacename> or to a <interfacename>Topic</interfacename>.
This flag has no effect on send operations for
the 1.1 implementation. However, in both implementations, this property
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 the section entitled <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 J2EE 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 J2EE 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 langauge="java"><![CDATA[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;
import org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate102;
public class JmsQueueSender {
private JmsTemplate jmsTemplate;
private Queue queue;
public void setConnectionFactory(ConnectionFactory cf) {
this.jmsTemplate = new JmsTemplate102(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>When configuring the JMS 1.0.2 support in an application context,
it is important to remember setting the value of the boolean property
<property>pubSubDomain</property> property in order to indicate if you
want to send to Queues or Topics.</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 langauge="java"><![CDATA[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><![CDATA[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 langauge="java"><![CDATA[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 langauge="xml"><lineannotation>&lt;!-- this is the Message Driven POJO (MDP) --&gt;</lineannotation>
<![CDATA[<bean id="messageListener" class="jmsexample.ExampleListener" />
]]><lineannotation>&lt;!-- and this is the message listener container --&gt;</lineannotation><![CDATA[
<bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
<property name="destination" ref="destination"/>
]]><emphasis role="bold"><![CDATA[<property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener" />]]></emphasis><![CDATA[
</bean>]]></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 langauge="java"><![CDATA[package org.springframework.jms.listener;
public interface SessionAwareMessageListener {
void onMessage(Message message, Session session) ]]><emphasis role="bold"><![CDATA[throws JMSException]]></emphasis><![CDATA[;
}]]></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>
<note>
<para>If you are using the JMS 1.0.2 API, you will want to use the
<classname>MessageListenerAdapter102</classname> class which provides the exact
same functionality and value add as the <classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname>
class, but for the JMS 1.0.2 API.</para>
</note>
<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 langauge="java"><![CDATA[public interface MessageDelegate {
void handleMessage(String message);
void handleMessage(Map message);
void handleMessage(byte[] message);
void handleMessage(Serializable message);
}]]></programlisting>
<programlisting langauge="java"><![CDATA[public class DefaultMessageDelegate implements MessageDelegate {
]]><lineannotation>// implementation elided for clarity...</lineannotation><![CDATA[
}]]></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 langauge="xml"><lineannotation>&lt;!-- this is the Message Driven POJO (MDP) --&gt;</lineannotation>
<emphasis role="bold"><![CDATA[<bean id="messageListener" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.adapter.MessageListenerAdapter">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="jmsexample.DefaultMessageDelegate"/>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>]]></emphasis>
<lineannotation>&lt;!-- and this is the message listener container... --&gt;</lineannotation><![CDATA[
<bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
<property name="destination" ref="destination"/>
]]><emphasis role="bold"><![CDATA[<property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener" />]]></emphasis><![CDATA[
</bean>]]></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 langauge="java"><![CDATA[public interface TextMessageDelegate {
void receive(TextMessage message);
}]]></programlisting>
<programlisting langauge="java"><![CDATA[public class DefaultTextMessageDelegate implements TextMessageDelegate {
]]><lineannotation>// implementation elided for clarity...</lineannotation><![CDATA[
}]]></programlisting>
<para>The configuration of the attendant <classname>MessageListenerAdapter</classname> would
look like this:</para>
<programlisting langauge="xml"><![CDATA[<bean id="messageListener" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.adapter.MessageListenerAdapter">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="jmsexample.DefaultTextMessageDelegate"/>
</constructor-arg>
<property name="defaultListenerMethod" value="receive"/>
]]><lineannotation>&lt;!-- we <emphasis role="bold">don't</emphasis> want automatic message context extraction --&gt;</lineannotation><![CDATA[
<property name="messageConverter">
<null/>
</property>
</bean>]]></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 langauge="java"><![CDATA[public interface ResponsiveTextMessageDelegate {
]]><lineannotation><emphasis role="bold">// notice the return type...</emphasis></lineannotation><![CDATA[
String receive(TextMessage message);
}]]></programlisting>
<programlisting langauge="java"><![CDATA[public class DefaultResponsiveTextMessageDelegate implements ResponsiveTextMessageDelegate {
]]><lineannotation>// implementation elided for clarity...</lineannotation><![CDATA[
}]]></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 langauge="xml"><![CDATA[<bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
<property name="destination" ref="destination"/>
<property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener"/>
]]><emphasis role="bold"><![CDATA[<property name="sessionTransacted" value="true"/>]]></emphasis><![CDATA[
</bean>]]></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 J2EE 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 J2EE 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 langauge="xml"><![CDATA[<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager"/>
]]></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"><![CDATA[<bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
<property name="destination" ref="destination"/>
<property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener"/>
]]><emphasis role="bold"><![CDATA[<property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>]]></emphasis><![CDATA[
</bean>]]></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"><![CDATA[<bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint.JmsMessageEndpointManager">
<property name="resourceAdapter" ref="resourceAdapter"/>
<property name="activationSpecConfig">
<bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint.JmsActivationSpecConfig">
<property name="destinationName" value="myQueue"/>
</bean>
</property>
<property name="messageListener" ref="myMessageListener"/>
</bean>]]></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"><![CDATA[<bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint.JmsMessageEndpointManager">
<property name="resourceAdapter" ref="resourceAdapter"/>
<property name="activationSpec">
<bean class="org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQActivationSpec">
<property name="destination" value="myQueue"/>
<property name="destinationType" value="javax.jms.Queue"/>
</bean>
</property>
<property name="messageListener" ref="myMessageListener"/>
</bean>]]></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"><![CDATA[<bean id="resourceAdapter" class="org.springframework.jca.support.ResourceAdapterFactoryBean">
<property name="resourceAdapter">
<bean class="org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQResourceAdapter">
<property name="serverUrl" value="tcp://localhost:61616"/>
</bean>
</property>
<property name="workManager">
<bean class="org.springframework.jca.work.SimpleTaskWorkManager"/>
</property>
</bean>]]></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"><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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><![CDATA[
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
]]><emphasis role="bold">http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-2.5.xsd"</emphasis><![CDATA[>
]]><lineannotation>&lt;!-- <literal>&lt;bean/&gt;</literal> definitions here --&gt;</lineannotation><![CDATA[
</beans>]]></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"><![CDATA[<jms:listener-container>
<jms:listener destination="queue.orders" ref="orderService" method="placeOrder"/>
<jms:listener destination="queue.confirmations" ref="confirmationLogger" method="log"/>
</jms:listener-container>]]></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 the section entitled
<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"><![CDATA[<jms:listener-container connection-factory="myConnectionFactory"
task-executor="myTaskExecutor"
destination-resolver="myDestinationResolver"
transaction-manager="myTransactionManager"
concurrency="10">
<jms:listener destination="queue.orders" ref="orderService" method="placeOrder"/>
<jms:listener destination="queue.confirmations" ref="confirmationLogger" method="log"/>
</jms:listener-container>]]></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 J2EE-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"><![CDATA[<jms:jca-listener-container resource-adapter="myResourceAdapter"
destination-resolver="myDestinationResolver"
transaction-manager="myTransactionManager"
concurrency="10">
<jms:listener destination="queue.orders" ref="myMessageListener"/>
</jms:jca-listener-container>]]></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>