Sensing a loss of connection without explicitly sending a message

Question

First I need to know if I am even on the right forum since I don't have a clue whether the Sun Java System Message Queue and the Sun ONE Message Queue, v3.0.1 are the same animal. Since there was no forum for the Sun ONE Message Queue I'm assuming they are one and the same. If not let me know.
We are attempting to sense a loss of connection to the JMQ broker by attempting to create a session against an already established Connection object. The theory is that createSession will fail if the connection is down but it doesn't seem to be working. We don't want to have to explicitly send a message on the down connection to trigger an exception but if we absolutely have to we will. We are periodically checking the status of many connections and would prefer to not spend too much time at it. I also considered using Connection.start() to see if perhaps "re-starting" an established connection would generate an exception if the connection is down. If anyone knows how the pros at SUN do this, I would appreciate the knowledge very much.

Answer 1

Hi, did you get a proper answer to your question? We're also trying to detect loss of connection on the client side: shall we have to use the session creation or is there a way to sense the loss of the connection as soon as it happens? We've tried setting an exception listener on the connection, but that didn't help.
Thanks.