Using ActiveMQ > Configuring Transports > ActiveMQ Connection URIs > Static Transport Reference
The static transport provides a hard coded mechanism to discover other connections using a list of URIs. A connection using this discovery mechanism will attempt to connect to all URIs in the list until it is succesful.
`static:(uri1,uri2,uri3,...)?options**
static:(tcp://localhost:61616,tcp://remotehost:61617?trace=false,vm://localbroker)?initialReconnectDelay=100
Option Name
Default Value
Description
initialReconnectDelay
10
How long to wait before the first reconnect attempt (in ms)
maxReconnectDelay
30000
The maximum amount of time we ever wait between reconnect attempts (in ms)
useExponentialBackOff
true
Should an exponential backoff be used btween reconnect attempts
backOffMultiplier
2
The exponent used in the exponential backoff attempts
maxReconnectAttempts
0
If not 0, then this is the maximum number of reconnect attempts before an error is sent back to the client
minConnectTime
500
If a connaction fails faster than this amount of time then it is considered a connection failure
As the static transport protocol is for broker discovery, it should not be used by client programs. Clients wishing to failover to a static list of broker instances, should use the [failover://](http://activemq.apache.orgUsing ActiveMQ/Configuring Transports/ActiveMQ Connection URIs/failover-transport-reference) transport instead.