JMS

The jakarta.jms.ConnectionFactory interface provides a standard method of creating a jakarta.jms.Connection for interacting with a JMS broker. Although Spring needs a ConnectionFactory to work with JMS, you generally need not use it directly yourself and can instead rely on higher level messaging abstractions. (See the relevant section of the Spring Framework reference documentation for details.) Spring Boot also auto-configures the necessary infrastructure to send and receive messages.

ActiveMQ "Classic" Support

When ActiveMQ "Classic" is available on the classpath, Spring Boot can configure a ConnectionFactory.

If you use spring-boot-starter-activemq, the necessary dependencies to connect to an ActiveMQ "Classic" instance are provided, as is the Spring infrastructure to integrate with JMS.

ActiveMQ "Classic" configuration is controlled by external configuration properties in spring.activemq.*. By default, ActiveMQ "Classic" is auto-configured to use the TCP transport, connecting by default to tcp://localhost:61616. The following example shows how to change the default broker URL:

Properties
YAML

spring.activemq.broker-url=tcp://192.168.1.210:9876
spring.activemq.user=admin
spring.activemq.password=secret

spring:
  activemq:
    broker-url: "tcp://192.168.1.210:9876"
    user: "admin"
    password: "secret"

By default, a CachingConnectionFactory wraps the native ConnectionFactory with sensible settings that you can control by external configuration properties in spring.jms.*:

Properties
YAML

spring.jms.cache.session-cache-size=5

spring:
  jms:
    cache:
      session-cache-size: 5

If you’d rather use native pooling, you can do so by adding a dependency to org.messaginghub:pooled-jms and configuring the JmsPoolConnectionFactory accordingly, as shown in the following example:

Properties
YAML

spring.activemq.pool.enabled=true
spring.activemq.pool.max-connections=50

spring:
  activemq:
    pool:
      enabled: true
      max-connections: 50

See ActiveMQProperties for more of the supported options. You can also register an arbitrary number of beans that implement ActiveMQConnectionFactoryCustomizer for more advanced customizations.

By default, ActiveMQ "Classic" creates a destination if it does not yet exist so that destinations are resolved against their provided names.

ActiveMQ Artemis Support

Spring Boot can auto-configure a ConnectionFactory when it detects that ActiveMQ Artemis is available on the classpath. If the broker is present, an embedded broker is automatically started and configured (unless the mode property has been explicitly set). The supported modes are embedded (to make explicit that an embedded broker is required and that an error should occur if the broker is not available on the classpath) and native (to connect to a broker using the netty transport protocol). When the latter is configured, Spring Boot configures a ConnectionFactory that connects to a broker running on the local machine with the default settings.

If you use spring-boot-starter-artemis, the necessary dependencies to connect to an existing ActiveMQ Artemis instance are provided, as well as the Spring infrastructure to integrate with JMS. Adding org.apache.activemq:artemis-jakarta-server to your application lets you use embedded mode.

ActiveMQ Artemis configuration is controlled by external configuration properties in spring.artemis.*. For example, you might declare the following section in application.properties:

Properties
YAML

spring.artemis.mode=native
spring.artemis.broker-url=tcp://192.168.1.210:9876
spring.artemis.user=admin
spring.artemis.password=secret

spring:
  artemis:
    mode: native
    broker-url: "tcp://192.168.1.210:9876"
    user: "admin"
    password: "secret"

When embedding the broker, you can choose if you want to enable persistence and list the destinations that should be made available. These can be specified as a comma-separated list to create them with the default options, or you can define bean(s) of type org.apache.activemq.artemis.jms.server.config.JMSQueueConfiguration or org.apache.activemq.artemis.jms.server.config.TopicConfiguration, for advanced queue and topic configurations, respectively.

By default, a CachingConnectionFactory wraps the native ConnectionFactory with sensible settings that you can control by external configuration properties in spring.jms.*:

Properties
YAML

spring.jms.cache.session-cache-size=5

spring:
  jms:
    cache:
      session-cache-size: 5

If you’d rather use native pooling, you can do so by adding a dependency on org.messaginghub:pooled-jms and configuring the JmsPoolConnectionFactory accordingly, as shown in the following example:

Properties
YAML

spring.artemis.pool.enabled=true
spring.artemis.pool.max-connections=50

spring:
  artemis:
    pool:
      enabled: true
      max-connections: 50

See ArtemisProperties for more supported options.

No JNDI lookup is involved, and destinations are resolved against their names, using either the name attribute in the ActiveMQ Artemis configuration or the names provided through configuration.

Using a JNDI ConnectionFactory

If you are running your application in an application server, Spring Boot tries to locate a JMS ConnectionFactory by using JNDI. By default, the java:/JmsXA and java:/XAConnectionFactory location are checked. You can use the spring.jms.jndi-name property if you need to specify an alternative location, as shown in the following example:

Properties
YAML

spring.jms.jndi-name=java:/MyConnectionFactory

spring:
  jms:
    jndi-name: "java:/MyConnectionFactory"

Sending a Message

Spring’s JmsTemplate is auto-configured, and you can autowire it directly into your own beans, as shown in the following example:

Java
Kotlin

import org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class MyBean {

	private final JmsTemplate jmsTemplate;

	public MyBean(JmsTemplate jmsTemplate) {
		this.jmsTemplate = jmsTemplate;
	}

	// ...

	public void someMethod() {
		this.jmsTemplate.convertAndSend("hello");
	}

}

import org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component

@Component
class MyBean(private val jmsTemplate: JmsTemplate) {

	// ...

	fun someMethod() {
		jmsTemplate.convertAndSend("hello")
	}

}

JmsMessagingTemplate can be injected in a similar manner. If a DestinationResolver or a MessageConverter bean is defined, it is associated automatically to the auto-configured JmsTemplate.

Receiving a Message

When the JMS infrastructure is present, any bean can be annotated with @JmsListener to create a listener endpoint. If no JmsListenerContainerFactory has been defined, a default one is configured automatically. If a DestinationResolver, a MessageConverter, or a jakarta.jms.ExceptionListener beans are defined, they are associated automatically with the default factory.

By default, the default factory is transactional. If you run in an infrastructure where a JtaTransactionManager is present, it is associated to the listener container by default. If not, the sessionTransacted flag is enabled. In that latter scenario, you can associate your local data store transaction to the processing of an incoming message by adding @Transactional on your listener method (or a delegate thereof). This ensures that the incoming message is acknowledged, once the local transaction has completed. This also includes sending response messages that have been performed on the same JMS session.

The following component creates a listener endpoint on the someQueue destination:

Java
Kotlin

import org.springframework.jms.annotation.JmsListener;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class MyBean {

	@JmsListener(destination = "someQueue")
	public void processMessage(String content) {
		// ...
	}

}

import org.springframework.jms.annotation.JmsListener
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component

@Component
class MyBean {

	@JmsListener(destination = "someQueue")
	fun processMessage(content: String?) {
		// ...
	}

}

See the @EnableJms API documentation for more details.

If you need to create more JmsListenerContainerFactory instances or if you want to override the default, Spring Boot provides a DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactoryConfigurer that you can use to initialize a DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory with the same settings as the one that is auto-configured.

For instance, the following example exposes another factory that uses a specific MessageConverter:

Java
Kotlin

import jakarta.jms.ConnectionFactory;

import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jms.DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactoryConfigurer;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.jms.config.DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory;

@Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
public class MyJmsConfiguration {

	@Bean
	public DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory myFactory(DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactoryConfigurer configurer) {
		DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory factory = new DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory();
		ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = getCustomConnectionFactory();
		configurer.configure(factory, connectionFactory);
		factory.setMessageConverter(new MyMessageConverter());
		return factory;
	}

	private ConnectionFactory getCustomConnectionFactory() {
		return ...
	}

}

import jakarta.jms.ConnectionFactory
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jms.DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactoryConfigurer
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration
import org.springframework.jms.config.DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory

@Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
class MyJmsConfiguration {

	@Bean
	fun myFactory(configurer: DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactoryConfigurer): DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory {
		val factory = DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory()
		val connectionFactory = getCustomConnectionFactory()
		configurer.configure(factory, connectionFactory)
		factory.setMessageConverter(MyMessageConverter())
		return factory
	}

	fun getCustomConnectionFactory() : ConnectionFactory? {
		return ...
	}

}

Then you can use the factory in any @JmsListener-annotated method as follows:

Java
Kotlin

import org.springframework.jms.annotation.JmsListener;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class MyBean {

	@JmsListener(destination = "someQueue", containerFactory = "myFactory")
	public void processMessage(String content) {
		// ...
	}

}

import org.springframework.jms.annotation.JmsListener
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component

@Component
class MyBean {

	@JmsListener(destination = "someQueue", containerFactory = "myFactory")
	fun processMessage(content: String?) {
		// ...
	}

}