Weblogic 10.3 Not Removing Expired Messages from JMS Queues

Question

Dear All,
We have an application that is running on Weblogic 10.3.
This application (let us call this application Y) receives messages on a JMS queue. These messages are placed on the queue by another application (let us call this application X). We would like to have these messages expire within a certain amount of time (i.e. 90000 ms) if they are not consumed.
Now when application X places the messages onto the queue for application Y to consume, the JMS producer sets the time to live to 90000 ms. We can see that expiration time has been set appropriately in the weblogic console. If a message sits on the queue for longer than 90000 ms the state string of the message is changed to "receive expired". What we don't understand is why the expired messages still end up being consumed from the queue.
We understand that Weblogic is supposed to have an 'Active Message Expiration' thread that will remove expired messages from the queue. The Expiration Scan Interval for the JMS Server is set to 30 (seconds).
Can anyone tell us why our expired messages don't seem to be deleted from the queues?
Tim

Answer 1

Thank you for the response Rene.
We have set up both the active expiration scan and the message expiration policy. The active expiration scan is set for every 30 seconds. The message expiration policy is set to "discard". However, the expired messages are still being consumed. Is it possible we are doing something wrong? See a portion of our configuration files below.
We have set up the expiration scan time interval. See a portion of our config.xml below:
<jms-server>
<name>brokerJMSServer</name>
<target>AdminServer</target>
<persistent-store xsi:nil="true"></persistent-store>
<store-enabled>true</store-enabled>
<allows-persistent-downgrade>false</allows-persistent-downgrade>
<hosting-temporary-destinations>true</hosting-temporary-destinations>
<temporary-template-resource xsi:nil="true"></temporary-template-resource>
<temporary-template-name xsi:nil="true"></temporary-template-name>
<message-buffer-size>-1</message-buffer-size>
*<expiration-scan-interval>30</expiration-scan-interval>*
<production-paused-at-startup>false</production-paused-at-startup>
<insertion-paused-at-startup>false</insertion-paused-at-startup>
<consumption-paused-at-startup>false</consumption-paused-at-startup>
</jms-server>
<jms-system-resource>
<name>broker-jms</name>
<target>AdminServer</target>
<sub-deployment>
<name>EhrBrokerRequestQueue</name>
<target>brokerJMSServer</target>
</sub-deployment>
<descriptor-file-name>jms/broker-jms.xml</descriptor-file-name>
</jms-system-resource>
<admin-server-name>AdminServer</admin-server-name>
We have set up the message expiration policy in our jms descriptor. See a portion below:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<weblogic-jms xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-jms" xmlns:sec="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90/security" xmlns:wls="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90/security/wls" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-jms http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-jms/1.0/weblogic-jms.xsd">
<queue name="EhrBrokerRequestQueue">
<delivery-params-overrides>
<redelivery-delay>-1</redelivery-delay>
</delivery-params-overrides>
<delivery-failure-params>
<redelivery-limit>-1</redelivery-limit>
*<expiration-policy>Discard</expiration-policy>*
</delivery-failure-params>
<jndi-name>EhrBrokerRequestQueue</jndi-name>
</queue>
</weblogic-jms>
What could we be doing wrong?
Kind Regards,
Tim