On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:35 +0000, Mathew Phillips wrote:
> I have an MDB that i developed to consume messages from a queue and write the 
> data to a database. It works fine as long as no errors are thrown in the 
> onMessage method of the mdb. But if an exception is thrown
> the message is not consumed from the queue. Is there a way to 
> programmatically consume the message even if an error occurs?
> 
> class MyMDB implements MessageListener{
>         ....
> public void onMessage(Message message) {
>         TextMessage txtMsg = (TextMessage)message;
>         try {
>                 Connection dbconn = ds.getConnection();
>                         String[] data = txtMsg.getText().split(",");
>                         PreparedStatement stmt = dbconn.prepareStatement(
>                                       "INSERT INTO CUSTOMER_TBL 
> values(?,?,?)");
>                         stmt.setInt(1,Integer.parseInt(data[0]));
>                         stmt.setString(2,data[1]);
>                         stmt.setString(3,data[2]);
>                         stmt.execute();
>                         dbconn.close();
>         } catch (Exception e) {
>                         carmdb_logger.error("Error inserting to database",e);
>         }
>        ...
> }
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Phillips

See this article for a discussion of why you should handle all errors in
the onMessage method and not propagate them to the JMS client code.

http://effectivemessaging.blogspot.com/2009/01/messagelistener-exception-handling.html

Regards


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