Chapter 1. Overview

AMQ JMS Pool is a library that provides caching of JMS connections, sessions, and message producers. It enables reuse of connection resources beyond the standard lifecycle defined by the JMS API.

AMQ JMS Pool operates as a standard JMS ConnectionFactory instance that wraps the ConnectionFactory of your chosen JMS provider and manages the lifetime of Connection objects from that provider based on the configuration of the JMS pool. It can be configured to share one or more connections among callers to the pool createConnection() methods.

AMQ JMS Pool is part of AMQ Clients, a suite of messaging libraries supporting multiple languages and platforms. For an overview of the clients, see AMQ Clients Overview. For information about this release, see AMQ Clients 2.4 Release Notes.

AMQ JMS Pool is based on the Pooled JMS messaging library.

1.1. Key features

  • JMS 1.1 and 2.0 compatible
  • Automatic reconnect
  • Configurable connection and session pool sizes

1.2. Supported standards and protocols

AMQ JMS Pool supports version 2.0 of the Java Message Service API.

1.3. Supported configurations

AMQ JMS Pool supports the following OS and language versions:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8 with the following JDKs:

    • OpenJDK 8 and 11
    • Oracle JDK 8
    • IBM JDK 8
  • HP-UX 11i with HP-UX JVM 8
  • IBM AIX 7.1 with IBM JDK 8
  • Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 with Oracle JDK 8
  • Microsoft Windows 10 Pro with Oracle JDK 8
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 with Oracle JDK 8

For more information, see Red Hat AMQ Supported Configurations.

1.4. Document conventions

In this document, all file paths are valid for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems (for example, /home/...). If you are using Microsoft Windows, you should use the equivalent Microsoft Windows paths (for example, C:\Users\...).