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7.5. Notes for JMS clusters

When one node in JBoss Messaging cluster goes down, its buddy in the cluster loads all of the dead server's messages from the database.
If the dead node was performing an XA transaction when it went down, the transaction log may have been written but the associated messages may move to another server in the cluster.
When the dead server comes back to life, the recovery manager may try to recover the transactions stored in the transaction log. If the messages have been moved to another server, it is impossible to acquire the proper XAResource from the local JMS provider, because the associated messages are no longer on that server. The result is that JBoss Transaction Service returns: 
      Could not find new XAResource to use for recovering non-serializable XAResource
To resolve this, add a JMS provider and a Recovery Manager for each node in the cluster. For example, if the cluster had three nodes, add this to jbossts-properties.xml: 
      <property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XAResourceRecovery.JBMESSAGINGREMOTE1"
          value="org.jboss.jms.server.recovery.MessagingXAResourceRecovery;java:/RemoteJMSProvider1"/>
	  
      <property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XAResourceRecovery.JBMESSAGINGREMOTE2"
          value="org.jboss.jms.server.recovery.MessagingXAResourceRecovery;java:/RemoteJMSProvider2"/>
The remote providers can be configured in JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jms-ds.xml: 
<properties depends="arjuna" name="jta">
  <!--
      Support subtransactions in the JTA layer?
      Default is NO.
  -->
  <property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.supportSubtransactions" value="NO"/>
  <property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.jtaTMImplementation"
	    value="com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionManagerImple"/>
  <property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.jtaUTImplementation"
	    value="com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.UserTransactionImple"/>      
  <!--
      *** Add this line to enable recovery for JMS resources using DefaultJMSProvider ***
  -->
  <property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XAResourceRecovery.JBMESSAGING1"
	    value="org.jboss.jms.server.recovery.MessagingXAResourceRecovery;java:/DefaultJMSProvider"/>

</properties>
The JNDI properties are configured to connect to the remote nodes in the cluster. Add providers and recovery managers to each node in the cluster for all the other nodes of the cluster in order to get proper recovery.