We have one Broker that clients access and it send JMS messages to multiple other Brokers at different locations. Right now, we're creating a ConnectionFactory for each of the other Brokers. Is this the intended way to handle that?
We thought about clustering, but due to security reasons, we can't
I guess I'm really wondering what is the preferred way to do Broker to Broker communication in Sun ONE Message Queue?
The preferred mechanism is broker clustering which is
available in the Enterprise Edition of MQ (or as a trial
in the Platform Edition).
For example if you have three brokers
clustered together a publishing client can connect to
broker A. Other clients can connect to brokers B and C
and subscribe to the same topic. When the publishing
client sends a message to broker A for the topic the
other clients are subscribed to broker A will
automatically forward the message to the two other
brokers in the cluster so that subscribing clients will
receive the message.
The brokers in the cluster have intelligence such that
they will not forward messages to brokers if there
are not clients attached to the broker interested in
receiving the message. This save bandwidth.
