Java™ Message Service API Tutorial and Reference: Messaging for the J2EE™ Platform

12.3. Methods

The following methods are defined in the interface javax.jms.Connection.

close

public void close()

Closes the connection.

Since a provider typically allocates significant resources outside the JVM on behalf of a connection, clients should close these resources when they are not needed. Relying on garbage collection to eventually reclaim these resources may not be timely enough.

There is no need to close the sessions, producers, and consumers of a closed connection.

Closing a connection causes all temporary destinations to be deleted.

When this method is invoked, it should not return until message processing has been shut down in an orderly fashion. This means that all message listeners that may have been running have returned, ...