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20.8.9. Configure Message Expiry Addresses
Introduction
Message expiry addresses are defined in the address-setting configuration of the Java Messaging Service (JMS). For example:
<!-- expired messages in exampleQueue will be sent to the expiry address expiryQueue --> <address-setting match="jms.queue.exampleQueue"> <expiry-address>jms.queue.expiryQueue</expiry-address> </address-setting>
If messages are expired and no expiry address is specified, messages are simply removed from the queue and dropped. Address wildcards can also be used to configure specific ranges of an expiry address for a set of addresses. See Section 20.8.2, “Configure JMS Address Settings” for the JMX wildcard syntax and examples.

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