HelidonHelidon4.5.0

JMS Connector

Reactive Messaging support for JMS

Overview

Connecting streams to JMS with Reactive Messaging couldn’t be easier.

Maven Coordinates

To enable JMS Connector, add the following dependency to your project’s pom.xml (see Managing Dependencies).

pom.xml
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.helidon.messaging.jms</groupId>
  <artifactId>helidon-messaging-jms</artifactId>
</dependency>

Configuration

Connector name: helidon-jms

Configuration options

KeyTypeDefaultDescription
message-selectorStringJMS API message selector expression based on a subset of the SQL92
named-factoryStringTo select from manually configured jakarta.jms.ConnectionFactory ConnectionFactories over JmsConnector.JmsConnectorBuilder#connectionFactory(String, jakarta.jms.ConnectionFactory) JmsConnectorBuilder#connectionFactory()
destinationStringQueue or topic name
transactedBooleanfalseIndicates whether the session will use a local transaction
typeTypeQUEUESpecify if connection is Type#QUEUE queue or Type#TOPIC topic
jndi-initial-factoryStringJNDI initial factory
passwordStringPassword used for creating JMS connection
poll-timeoutLong50Timeout for polling for next message in every poll cycle in millis
jndi-jms-factoryStringJNDI name of JMS factory
topicStringUse supplied destination name and Type#TOPIC TOPIC as type
acknowledge-modeAcknowledgeModeAUTO_ACKNOWLEDGEJMS acknowledgement mode
jndi-initial-context-propertiesMap<String, String>Environment properties used for creating initial context java.naming.factory.initial, java.naming.provider.url
jndi-provider-urlStringJNDI provider url
period-executionsLong100Period for executing poll cycles in millis
queueStringUse supplied destination name and Type#QUEUE QUEUE as type
session-group-idStringWhen multiple channels share same session-group-id, they share same JMS session
usernameStringUser name used for creating JMS connection
Besides the configuration options above, custom attributes can be passed over configuration.

Custom Attributes Examples

AttributeDescription
jndi.destinationJNDI destination identifier.
jndi.env-propertiesEnvironment properties used for creating initial context java.naming.factory.initial, java.naming.provider.url ...
producer.somepropertyproperty with producer prefix is set to producer instance (for example WLS Unit-of-Order WLMessageProducer.setUnitOfOrder("unit-1") can be configured as producer.unit-of-order=unit-1)

Configured JMS factory

The simplest possible usage is looking up JMS ConnectionFactory in the naming context.

Example of connector config:

mp.messaging:

  incoming.from-jms:
    connector: helidon-jms
    destination: messaging-test-queue-1
    type: queue

  outgoing.to-jms:
    connector: helidon-jms
    destination: messaging-test-queue-1
    type: queue

  connector:
    helidon-jms:
      user: Gandalf
      password: mellon
      jndi:
        jms-factory: ConnectionFactory
        env-properties:
          java.naming:
            factory.initial: org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory
            provider.url: tcp://localhost:61616

Injected JMS factory

In case you need more advanced setup, connector can work with injected factory instance.

Inject
@Produces
@ApplicationScoped
@Named("active-mq-factory")
public ConnectionFactory connectionFactory() {
    return new ActiveMQConnectionFactory(config.get("jms.url").asString().get());
}
Config
jms:
  url: tcp://127.0.0.1:61616

mp:
  messaging:
    connector:
      helidon-jms:
        named-factory: active-mq-factory

    outgoing.to-jms:
      connector: helidon-jms
      session-group-id: order-connection-1
      destination: TESTQUEUE
      type: queue

    incoming.from-jms:
      connector: helidon-jms
      session-group-id: order-connection-1
      destination: TESTQUEUE
      type: queue

Usage

Consuming

Consuming one by one unwrapped value:

@Incoming("from-jms")
public void consumeJms(String msg) {
    System.out.println("JMS says: " + msg);
}

Consuming one by one, manual ack:

@Incoming("from-jms")
@Acknowledgment(Acknowledgment.Strategy.MANUAL)
public CompletionStage<Void> consumeJms(JmsMessage<String> msg) {
    System.out.println("JMS says: " + msg.getPayload());
    return msg.ack();
}

Producing

Example of producing to JMS:

@Outgoing("to-jms")
public PublisherBuilder<String> produceToJms() {
    return ReactiveStreams.of("test1", "test2");
}

Example of more advanced producing to JMS:

@Outgoing("to-jms")
public PublisherBuilder<Message<String>> produceToJms() {
    return ReactiveStreams.of("test1", "test2")
            .map(s -> JmsMessage.builder(s)
                    .correlationId(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
                    .property("stringProp", "cool property")
                    .property("byteProp", 4)
                    .property("intProp", 5)
                    .onAck(() -> CompletableFuture.completedStage(null)
                            .thenRun(() -> System.out.println("Acked!")))
                    .build());
}

Example of even more advanced producing to JMS with custom mapper:

@Outgoing("to-jms")
public PublisherBuilder<Message<String>> produceToJms() {
    return ReactiveStreams.of("test1", "test2")
            .map(s -> JmsMessage.builder(s)
                    .customMapper((p, session) -> {
                        TextMessage textMessage = session.createTextMessage(p);
                        textMessage.setStringProperty("custom-mapped-property", "XXX" + p);
                        return textMessage;
                    })
                    .build()
            );
}

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