[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of Messaging on JBoss (Messaging/JBoss)] - Re: discarding consumer messages.

[timfox]

"gozilla" wrote : Shouldn't we use the  TTL for that ?
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  | Say, put a TTL of the lentgh of validity period for the stock price.
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  | That way, if the consumer is slow, old (outdated) messages are discarded, leaving only the fresh ones in the queue.
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  | François

Sure, nothing is stopping you setting a TTL on the message, that will work too, if that's what you want.

However the semantics of this are slightly different as Andy mentioned.

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