JMS and Clusters

JMS queues and topics aren't really clustered objects because they're pinned to a specific WebLogic Server instance. Thus, WebLogic Server can't fail over the queues and topics. You can, however, deploy connection factories for a queue or topic on several cluster nodes, thus allowing the load balancing of requests for the queue or topic. You can alternatively create JMS servers on all cluster members and create copies of the queue or topic on those nodes, after which you can target the connection factory to the cluster.

You can also create a distributed destination, which represents a set of destinations, such as queues or topics, that a client can access as a single destination. With a cluster, the members of the set of destinations ...

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