It is sorted by the order in which brokers network to each other. A newly restarted broker will be appended to that list. With rebalance, each new connection gets a different first element.
see: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=activemq.git;a=blob;f=activemq-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/broker/TransportConnector.java;h=ac9661924d5bebbc37fe7f8159acbe2961dd33d9;hb=HEAD#l404 On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 at 14:03 Devlin <rbasmaj...@ofiglobal.com> wrote: > The list of active brokers sent to clients, how is that list ordered? > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-User-f2341805.html >