<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><p>If a JMS broker goes down, ActiveMQ can automatically reconnect to an available JMS broker using the <strong>failover:</strong> protocol. Not only does this automatically reconnect, it will also resume any temporary destinations, sessions, producers and most importantly consumers.</p>

<p>All of this happens silently inside the JMS client so you don't need to worry about it in your application code.</p>

<p>e.g. connecting to the URL</p>

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<p>For more detail see <a shape="rect" href="failover-transport-reference.xml">Failover Transport Reference</a></p></div>