The delivery modes supported by the JMS API arePERSISTENT
andNON_PERSISTENT
.
A client marks a message as persistent if it feels that the application will have problems if the message is lost in transit. A client marks a message as non-persistent if an occasional lost message is tolerable. Clients use delivery mode to tell a JMS provider how to balance message transport reliability with throughput.
Delivery mode covers only the transport of the message to its destination. Retention of a message at the destination until its receipt is acknowledged is not guaranteed by aPERSISTENT
delivery mode. Clients should assume that message retention policies are set administratively. Message retention policy governs the reliability of message delivery from destination to message consumer. For example, if a client's message storage space is exhausted, some messages may be dropped in accordance with a site-specific message retention policy.
A message is guaranteed to be delivered once and only once by a JMS provider if the delivery mode of the message isPERSISTENT
and if the destination has a sufficient message retention policy.
NON_PERSISTENT This is the lowest-overhead delivery mode because it does not require that the message be logged to stable storage. | |
PERSISTENT This delivery mode instructs the JMS provider to log the message to stable storage as part of the client's send operation. |
public static final intNON_PERSISTENT
NON_PERSISTENT
message to be lost is not defined.A JMS provider must deliver aNON_PERSISTENT
message with an at-most-once guarantee. This means that it may lose the message, but it must not deliver it twice.
public static final intPERSISTENT
PERSISTENT
message to be lost.