Hmm, actually, if you do setMessageListener(null) on the DefaultMessageListenerContainer, it will throw an IllegalArgumentException in checkMessageListener(), so, that shouldn't work.
The stop(), start(), isRunning() methods do seem like a good option to pause the listener via spring. The other way would be to use a table in db or just a (visible to the listener thread) flag like isPaused and then in the onMessage() of your listener, the thread sleep-spins until this isPaused is set to false. The isPaused will always be read-only for the listener thread but you can toggle isPaused externally based on your control flow. On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:46 AM, jpcook01 <jonathan.c...@erars.plus.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I am using a Asynchronous MessageListener with onMessage within a > DefaultMessageListenerContainer. My service is then deployed into tomcat. > > I would like to know if there is a recommended way for > activating/deactivating my messagelistener programatically? It seems like > quite a reasonable or common use case but there doesn't appear to be any > obvious recommended approach for achieving this. The approach seems to be > to > get the DefaultMessageListenerContainer from the application context and > calling the stop() method to basically stop the connection and then start > again. Or I've read just calling setMessageListener(null) might achieve the > same. > > I'm using a > <listener> > > > <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> > </listener> > > So the entry point into my application is my MessageListener and wiring in > the following logic to my MessageListener onMessage method seems a bit > messy > and I'm not sure if there will be some strange side affect from stopping my > connection from within an async messagelistener. > > I wondered if there was a better way to do this maybe using JMX or JDNI? Or > is my suggestion the recommended approach. We don't really want to have to > start and stop the tomcat container every time we want to pause message > consumption? > > Thanks > Jon > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Pause-Resume-MessageListener-using-DefaultMessageListenerContainer-tp4655590.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
