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Chapter 26. Scheduled Messages

26.1. Scheduled Delivery Property
26.2. Example

Scheduled messages differ from normal messages in that they won't be delivered until a specified time in the future, at the earliest.

To do this, a special property is set on the message before sending it.

The property name used to identify a scheduled message is "_HQ_SCHED_DELIVERY" (or the constant Message.HDR_SCHEDULED_DELIVERY_TIME).

The specified value must be a positive long corresponding to the time the message must be delivered (in milliseconds). An example of sending a scheduled message using the JMS API is as follows.

  TextMessage message = 
   session.createTextMessage("This is a scheduled message message which will be delivered
     in 5 sec.");
  message.setLongProperty("_HQ_SCHED_DELIVERY", System.currentTimeMillis() + 5000);
  producer.send(message);

  ...
         
  // message will not be received immediately but 5 seconds later
  TextMessage messageReceived = (TextMessage) consumer.receive();
      

Scheduled messages can also be sent using the core API, by setting the same property on the core message before sending.

See Section 11.1.50, “Scheduled Message” for an example which shows how scheduled messages can be used with JMS.