Check out http://activemq.apache.org/failover-transport-reference.html
If it is attempting to establish a connection it will block. With the timeouts and such you might be able to get around start() blocking and do your own queuing of messages because if there isn't a valid connection the send() will throw after a timeout. donV wrote: > > Hi all! > > The failover transport should return normally on connection.start() even > if it cannot connect to a remote broker on startup, right? > > In all cases I am trying, it blocks on startup, preventing > initialization of the rest of the ActiveMQ components. > > I have filed a Jira issue on this: AMQ-2114 > > Anyone, please feel free to clarify the usage of the failover transport > in case I am missing something. What I expect from the failover > transport is robustness regarding remote broker connection failures. > > -- > With kind regards, > Uwe Kubosch > Datek Wireless > Norway > http://datek.no/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Failover-transport-hangs-on-startup-if-it-cannot-connect-to-a-broker-tp22006976p22103198.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.