Thank you for all of those explanations. The first solution (increasing the time between retries) didn't make sense to me, but your final explanation fully explains the behavior. Thanks for sharing the information with the list, to help anyone who hits this in the future.
Tim On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 3:14 PM bterhune <bterh...@tripwire.com wrote: > One last update.. The more I learn about what is going on, I realize the > information I left out of my original post. > > The Camel configuration is connecting to the broker in question using the > vm: protocol AND connecting to a remote broker. The VM connection was the > one causing reconnect to spin up an embedded instance of the broker using > default configuration. > > The change I made was to not create a broker if is not running. > > <property name="brokerURL" value="failover:(vm://my-broker?create=false)" > /> > > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-User-f2341805.html >