[rabbitmq-discuss] Exactly Once Delivery

[Matthew Sackman]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Tony Menges wrote:
> The JMS provider sets the message id. It is supposed to be unique enough to be used for a "historical repository" but the scope of uniqueness is left to the provider. It is recommended that it should be at least unique for a given "installation". I don't think this helps on the publisher side since as you pointed out the notification of the completion of the publish might not make it back to the producer.
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> JMS requires the provider to set the redelivered flag (and optionally the delivery count) field if it thinks the message has been given to the application before. The application may or may not have seen it but this flag can be used to trigger the check for a duplicate by the application. The use of unique message ids helps on this end.

Ahh interesting. It would thus seem that JMS requires slightly more of
the producer when publishing messages (more logic is required in the
client library there) and AMQP possibly requires more at the consumer
side.

Matthew