NMS.ActiveMQ URI Configuration

Configuring NMS.ActiveMQ

All configuration is achieved via URI-encoded parameters, either on the connection or destinations. Through the URIs, you can configure virtually every facet of your NMS.ActiveMQ client. The tables below show the comprehensive set of parameters.

Connection URI Parameters


Example Configuration

Using the Generic NMSConnectionFactory class would look as follows:

var cf = new NMSConnectionFactory("activemq:tcp://localhost:61616?wireFormat.tightEncodingEnabled=true");

You can also use the ActiveMQ ConecctionFactory implementation directory:

var cf = new Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ.ConnectionFactory("tcp://localhost:61616?wireFormat.tightEncodingEnabled=true");

Protocol Options


Option Description
tcp Uses TCP/IP Sockets to connect to the Broker.
ssl Uses TCP/IP Sockets to connect to the Broker with an added SSL layer.
discovery Uses The Discovery Transport to find a Broker
failover Uses the Failover Transport to connect and reconnect to one or more Brokers

Transport Options


TCP Transport Options

Option Default Description
transport.useLogging false Log data that is sent across the Transport.
transport.receiveBufferSize 8192 Amount of Data to buffer from the Socket
transport.sendBufferSize 8192 Amount of Data to buffer before writing to the Socket
transport.receiveTimeout 0 Time to wait for more data, zero means wait infinitely
transport.sendTimeout 0 Timeout on sends, 0 means wait forever for completion
transport.requestTimeout 0 Time to wait before a Request Command is considered to have failed

Discovery Transport Options

Failover Transport Options

Prior to NMS.ActiveMQ v1.4.0 the failover transport options did not use the transport.* prefix.

Option Default Description
transport.timeout -1 Time that a send operation blocks before failing.
transport.initialReconnectDelay 10 Time in Milliseconds that the transport waits before attempting to reconnect the first time.
transport.maxReconnectDelay 30000 The max time in Milliseconds that the transport will wait before attempting to reconnect.
transport.backOffMultiplier 2 The amount by which the reconnect delay will be multiplied by if useExponentialBackOff is enabled.
transport.useExponentialBackOff true Should the delay between connection attempt grow on each try up to the max reconnect delay.
transport.randomize true Should the Uri to connect to be chosen at random from the list of available Uris.
transport.maxReconnectAttempts 0 Maximum number of time the transport will attempt to reconnect before failing (0 means infinite retries)
transport.startupMaxReconnectAttempts 0 Maximum number of time the transport will attempt to reconnect before failing when there has never been a connection made. (0 means infinite retries) (included in NMS.ActiveMQ v1.5.0+)
transport.reconnectDelay 10 The delay in milliseconds that the transport waits before attempting a reconnection.
transport.backup false Should the Failover transport maintain hot backups.
transport.backupPoolSize 1 If enabled, how many hot backup connections are made.
transport.trackMessages false keep a cache of in-flight messages that will flushed to a broker on reconnect
transport.maxCacheSize 256 Number of messages that are cached if trackMessages is enabled.
transport.updateURIsSupported true Update the list of known brokers based on BrokerInfo messages sent to the client.

Connection Options


Connection options can either be set via the connection.* prefix or the nms.* prefix similar to the java client’s jms.* prefix settings.

Option Default Description
connection.AsyncSend false Are message sent Asynchronously.
connection.AsyncClose true Should the close command be sent Asynchronously
connection.AlwaysSyncSend false Causes all messages a Producer sends to be sent Asynchronously.
connection.CopyMessageOnSend true Copies the Message objects a Producer sends so that the client can reuse Message objects without affecting an in-flight message.
connection.ProducerWindowSize 0 The ProducerWindowSize is the maximum number of bytes in memory that a producer will transmit to a broker before waiting for acknowledgement messages from the broker that it has accepted the previously sent messages. In other words, this how you configure the producer flow control window that is used for async sends where the client is responsible for managing memory usage. The default value of 0 means no flow control at the client. See also Producer Flow Control
connection.useCompression false Should message bodies be compressed before being sent.
connection.sendAcksAsync false Should message acks be sent asynchronously
connection.messagePrioritySupported true Should messages be delivered to the client based on the value of the Message Priority header.
connection.dispatchAsync false Should the broker dispatch messages asynchronously to the connection’s consumers.
connection.watchTopicAdvisories true Should the client watch for advisory messages from the broker to track the creation and deletion of temporary destinations.

OpenWire Options

Option Default Description
wireFormat.stackTraceEnabled false Should the stack trace of exception that occur on the broker be sent to the client? Only used by openwire protocol.
wireFormat.cacheEnabled false Should commonly repeated values be cached so that less marshalling occurs? Only used by openwire protocol.
wireFormat.tcpNoDelayEnabled false Does not affect the wire format, but provides a hint to the peer that TCP nodelay should be enabled on the communications Socket. Only used by openwire protocol.
wireFormat.sizePrefixDisabled false Should serialized messages include a payload length prefix? Only used by openwire protocol.
wireFormat.tightEncodingEnabled false Should wire size be optimized over CPU usage? Only used by the openwire protocol.
wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration 30000 The maximum inactivity duration (before which the socket is considered dead) in milliseconds. On some platforms it can take a long time for a socket to appear to die, so we allow the broker to kill connections if they are inactive for a period of time. Use by some transports to enable a keep alive heart beat feature. Set to a value <= 0 to disable inactivity monitoring.
maxInactivityDurationInitalDelay 10000 The initial delay in starting the maximum inactivity checks (and, yes, the word ‘Inital’ is supposed to be misspelled like that)

Destination URI Parameters


Example Configuration

d = session.CreateTopic("com.foo?consumer.prefetchSize=2000&consumer.noLocal=true");

General Options


Option Default Description
consumer.prefetchSize 1000 The number of message the consumer will prefetchRemoved in v1.7.0 use connection prefetch policy instead.
consumer.maximumPendingMessageLimit 0 Use to control if messages are dropped if a slow consumer situation exists.
consumer.noLocal false Same as the noLocal flag on a Topic consumer. Exposed here so that it can be used with a queue.
consumer.dispatchAsync false Should the broker dispatch messages asynchronously to the consumer.
consumer.retroactive false Is this a Retroactive Consumer.
consumer.selector null JMS Selector used with the consumer.
consumer.exclusive false Is this an Exclusive Consumer.
consumer.priority 0 Allows you to configure a Consumer Priority.

OpenWire-only Options


Option Default Description
consumer.browser false  
consumer.networkSubscription false  
consumer.optimizedAcknowledge false Enables an optimised acknowledgement mode where messages are acknowledged in batches rather than individually. Alternatively, you could use Session.DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE acknowledgement mode for the consumers which can often be faster. WARNING enabling this issue could cause some issues with auto-acknowledgement on reconnection
consumer.noRangeAcks false  
consumer.retroactive false Sets whether or not retroactive consumers are enabled. Retroactive consumers allow non-durable topic subscribers to receive old messages that were published before the non-durable subscriber started.

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