JMS: Use of acknowledgment mode when posting a message

[Stanley Walker]

Hi everyone,

for the last two days i have been reading quite a bit of acknowledgement mode for JMS. I understood that is required for a message to be acknowledged for its consumption to be completed.

however i do not understand what is the use of setting acknowledgement mode when we are simply posting a message to a queue.

Can someone please help?

[Marco Ehrentreich]

Hi Stanley,

when you create a JMS Session the API requires the parameters "transacted" and "acknowledge mode" because Sessions can be used for both message producers and consumers. But the acknowledge mode only makes sense for message consumers. If the Session is created in an transactional context the acknowledge mode is ignored completely, but you still have to specify a value for it. So I'd say the JMS API is just not as clean as it could be for this part.

Marco

[Stanley Walker]

Thank you so much Marco.
So i guess unless the same session is being used to post and consume the message, while posting messages to a queue acknowledgement mode is simply ignored even though API requires us to set it.

[Marco Ehrentreich]

Yes, exactly ;-) If the send() method for a producer returns without errors the JMS broker already has received a message. It wouldn't make sense to additionally acknowledge it. In contrast for consumers acknowledge mode (or transaction handling) is important because it signals the message broker that the client has consumed a message correctly so that the broker can delete it from the queue.

Marco

[Stanley Walker]

Marco Ehrentreich wrote:In contrast for consumers acknowledge mode (or transaction handling) is important because it signals the message broker that the client has consumed a message correctly so that the broker can delete it from the queue.

Marco

now makes perfect sense