Looks like there's a regression in >= 5.11.0. Advisories fail to fire.
It looks like it’s a bug with MemoryTransactionStore. Switching to persistent brokers fixes the problem. It’s because addMessage calls: } else { destination.addMessage(null, message); } .. with an explicit null. the message given is: 2015-03-16 12:54:17,538 WARN [ActiveMQ Transport: tcp:///127.0.0.1:56468@16161] org.apache.activemq.advisory.AdvisoryBroker Failed to fire delivered advisory, reason: java.lang.NullPointerException … and I saw this when I was running mvn test in the main ActiveMQ test suite (or at least pretty sure I did) so this is happening not just in my code. The full exception , which I captured by setting a break point is below. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.activemq.advisory.AdvisoryBroker.fireAdvisory(AdvisoryBroker.java:626) at org.apache.activemq.advisory.AdvisoryBroker.messageDelivered(AdvisoryBroker.java:397) at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFilter.messageDelivered(BrokerFilter.java:349) at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFilter.messageDelivered(BrokerFilter.java:349) at org.apache.activemq.broker.MutableBrokerFilter.messageDelivered(MutableBrokerFilter.java:360) at org.apache.activemq.broker.MutableBrokerFilter.messageDelivered(MutableBrokerFilter.java:360) at org.apache.activemq.broker.region.BaseDestination.messageDelivered(BaseDestination.java:518) at org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Queue.messageSent(Queue.java:1806) at org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Queue.doPendingCursorAdditions(Queue.java:794) at org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Queue.orderedCursorAdd(Queue.java:875) at org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Queue.doMessageSend(Queue.java:854) at org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Queue.send(Queue.java:733) at org.apache.activemq.broker.region.AbstractRegion.send(AbstractRegion.java:419) at org.apache.activemq.broker.region.RegionBroker.send(RegionBroker.java:468) at org.apache.activemq.broker.jmx.ManagedRegionBroker.send(ManagedRegionBroker.java:297) at org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFilter.send(BrokerFilter.java:152) at org.apache.activemq.broker.CompositeDestinationBroker.send(CompositeDestinationBroker.java:96) at org.apache.activemq.broker.TransactionBroker.send(TransactionBroker.java:307) at org.apache.activemq.broker.MutableBrokerFilter.send(MutableBrokerFilter.java:157) at org.apache.activemq.broker.MutableBrokerFilter.send(MutableBrokerFilter.java:157) at org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection.processMessage(TransportConnection.java:541) at org.apache.activemq.command.ActiveMQMessage.visit(ActiveMQMessage.java:768) at org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection.service(TransportConnection.java:334) at org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection$1.onCommand(TransportConnection.java:188) at org.apache.activemq.transport.MutexTransport.onCommand(MutexTransport.java:50) at org.apache.activemq.transport.WireFormatNegotiator.onCommand(WireFormatNegotiator.java:113) at org.apache.activemq.transport.AbstractInactivityMonitor.onCommand(AbstractInactivityMonitor.java:270) at org.apache.activemq.transport.TransportSupport.doConsume(TransportSupport.java:83) at org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.doRun(TcpTransport.java:214) at org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.run(TcpTransport.java:196) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> <http://spinn3r.com>