[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBMESSAGING-1416) Provide complete message ordering

Provide complete message ordering --------------------------------- Key: JBMESSAGING-1416 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBMESSAGING-1416 Project: JBoss Messaging Issue Type: Feature Request Reporter: Tim Fox Assignee: Howard Gao Fix For: 1.4.0.SP3.CP06 As per customer request we would like to introduce new functionality over and above the JMS ordering guarantees. The idea is that the user should be able to determine an "ordering group". This can be done by setting a reserved property on the message before sending. The ordering group can be pinned to the producer or just be some other arbitrary string. In order to guarantee strict ordering, even on rollback or in the presence of multiple consumers or with xa transactions, the queue needs to ensure that no more than one message with the value of ordering group is being delivered at any one time. When that message has been acked, or cancelled the next one can be delivered. This is of course will provide a performance penalty since we won't be able to do consumer buffering, but that's the price you pay if you want such a strict ordering guarantee. We can subclass our MessageQueue class to do this. The sub-classed class can maintain a map of ordering group-->boolean. Which will determine whether the queue is currently delivering any messages with that ordering group value. It will consult that map when delivering to decide whether it can deliver the next message.