Thank you for your response. My experience was slightly different: with normal dispatch (not strictOrderDispatch) and several consumers they were prefetching the messages.
I even got into situation, when with few messages in the queue, with normal dispatch, the first consumer was prefetching everything and other consumers were doing nothing. What do you think could make the normal dispatch do prefetch? In my case I could observe one-by-one round-robin dispatch only when I explicitly set prefetchSize to 1. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Request-for-clarification-strictOrderDispatch-true-vs-Exclusive-Consumers-for-queues-tp4675408p4675867.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.