composite-destinations.html

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<p>As of version 1.1, ActiveMQ supports a technology we call <em>composite destinations</em>. This allows a single virtual JMS Destination to be used to represent a collection of JMS Destinations.</p>

<p>For example you can use composite destinations to send a message to 12 physical queues in one operation. Or send a message to one topic and one queue in one operation.</p>

<p>We do this using a simple separator of "," allowing a number of destinations to be specified when creating a destintation, or registering destinations in JNDI. e.g. the destination</p>

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FOO.A,FOO.B,FOO.C
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<p>Represents 3 different destinations. This could be used with a queue or topic to represent a set of 3 destinations. e.g.</p>

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// send to 3 queues as one logical operation
Queue queue = new ActiveMQQueue("FOO.A,FOO.B,FOO.C");
producer.send(queue, someMessage);
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<p>If you wish to mix and match the types of destination, you can use a prefix of <strong>queue://</strong> or <strong>topic://</strong> to differentiate the type of destination. e.g. to publish on a queue but also make a notification on a topic as well you could use</p>

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// send to queues and topic one logical operation
Queue queue = new ActiveMQQueue("FOO.A,topic://NOTIFY.FOO.A");
producer.send(queue, someMessage);
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<p>Composite destinations can also be configured on the <a shape="rect" href="virtual-destinations.html">broker side</a>, such that messages sent to a single destination by the client will be transparently copied to multiple physical destinations.</p></div>