ActiveMQ: Channel your energy

I started noticing an error when trying to fill my queue with a large number of messages. The error was the following: Channel was inactive for too long. This would happen anywhere from one minute after the producer and channel were created to as long as ten minutes. It wasn't all that consistent. After doing a little research, I found a solution to turn off the inactivity check.

<cfscript>
connectionFactory = createobject(
'java','org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory'
).init(
  '',
  '',
  'tcp://{host}:{port}
         ?jms.useAsyncSend=true
         &wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=0'
  );
connection = connectionFactory.createConnection();
connection.start();

....

</cfscript>

By appending &wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=0, it will turn off the inactivity check for the channel. You should also do this on the AMQ server side by doing the following in your ActiveMQ.xml:

<transportConnectors>
<transportConnector name="openwire"
uri="tcp://{host}:{port}/?wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=0"
discoveryUri="multicast://default"/>

...

</transportConnectors>

If you are experiencing issues like this with your CF ActiveMQ gateways, you could likely add this to your gateway config file. However, I have yet to see this error in connection with the CF ActiveMQ gateway. For more info on connecting directly to ActiveMQ, see my post Straight talk with ActiveMQ.