We have a route from a REST endpoint into a JMS (InOnly) endpoint. We took down the broker to see what would happen. Turns out HTTP clients hang waiting for a response (for several minutes) while a load of stack traces are logged by Camel:
09/Feb/2015 15:07:52,677- DefaultErrorHandler: Failed delivery for (MessageId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-1423494454408-0-1 on ExchangeId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-1423494454408-0-5). On delivery attempt: 0 caught: org.springframework.jms.UncategorizedJmsException: Uncategorized exception occured during JMS processing; nested exception is javax.jms.JMSException: Cannot send, channel has already failed: tcp://10.0.0.97:61616 09/Feb/2015 15:07:52,677- DefaultErrorHandler: Failed delivery for (MessageId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-1423494454408-0-1 on ExchangeId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-1423494454408-0-4). On delivery attempt: 0 caught: org.springframework.jms.UncategorizedJmsException: Uncategorized exception occured during JMS processing; nested exception is javax.jms.JMSException: Cannot send, channel has already failed: tcp://10.0.0.97:61616 09/Feb/2015 15:07:52,684- DefaultErrorHandler: Failed delivery for (MessageId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-1423494454408-0-1 on ExchangeId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-1423494454408-0-4). Exhausted after delivery attempt: 1 caught: org.springframework.jms.UncategorizedJmsException: Uncategorized exception occured during JMS processing; nested exception is javax.jms.JMSException: Cannot send, channel has already failed: tcp:// 10.0.0.97:61616 09/Feb/2015 15:07:52,689- TransactionErrorHandler: Transaction rollback (0x5d16d955) redelivered(unknown) for (MessageId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-14234944 54408-0-1 on ExchangeId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-1423494454408-0-5) caught: org.springframework.jms.UncategorizedJmsException: Uncategorized exception occ ured during JMS processing; nested exception is javax.jms.JMSException: Cannot send, channel has already failed: tcp://10.0.0.97:61616 09/Feb/2015 15:07:52,689- MulticastProcessor: Message exchange has failed: Sequential processing failed for number 0 for exchange: Exchange[Message: [B ody is instance of org.apache.camel.StreamCache]] Exception: org.apache.camel.RuntimeCamelException: org.springframework.jms.UncategorizedJmsException: Uncategorized exception occured during JMS processing; nested exception is javax.jms.JMSException: Cannot send, channel has already failed: tcp://10.0 .0.97:61616 09/Feb/2015 15:07:52,689- MulticastProcessor: Done sequential processing 1 exchanges 09/Feb/2015 15:07:52,689- Pipeline: Message exchange has failed: so breaking out of pipeline for exchange: Exchange[Message: [Body is instance of org.a pache.camel.StreamCache]] Exception: org.apache.camel.RuntimeCamelException: org.springframework.jms.UncategorizedJmsException: Uncategorized exception occured during JMS processing; nested exception is javax.jms.JMSException: Cannot send, channel has already failed: tcp://10.0.0.97:61616 09/Feb/2015 15:07:52,689- Pipeline: Message exchange has failed: so breaking out of pipeline for exchange: Exchange[Message: [Body is instance of org.a pache.camel.StreamCache]] Exception: org.apache.camel.RuntimeCamelException: org.springframework.jms.UncategorizedJmsException: Uncategorized exception occured during JMS processing; nested exception is javax.jms.JMSException: Cannot send, channel has already failed: tcp://10.0.0.97:61616 09/Feb/2015 15:07:52,690- TransactionErrorHandler: Transaction rollback (0x5d16d955) redelivered(unknown) for (MessageId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-1423494454408-0-1 on ExchangeId: ID-ngw-smtp-01-56823-1423494454408-0-2) caught: org.springframework.jms.UncategorizedJmsException: Uncategorized exception occured during JMS processing; nested exception is javax.jms.JMSException: Cannot send, channel has already failed: tcp://10.0.0.97:61616 We have plugged on some onException clauses but none appear to execute: onException(javax.jms.JMSException.class, Exception.class, RuntimeException.class) .log(LoggingLevel.ERROR, logger, "Exception!") .handled(true) .setHeader(Exchange.HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE, constant(500)) .setBody().constant("Something bad happened"); Can someone advice on what I'm missing? What we want is to respond with a 500 HTTP code but catching JMSException appears not be working. Thanks, James