Long lived JMS sessions. Is Keeping JMS connections / JMS sessions always opened a bad practice?

Question

Is keeping JMS connections / sessions / consumer always open a bad practice?

Code draft example:

// app startup code

ConnectionFactory cf = (ConnectionF         


        

Answer 1

That is a very common and acceptable practice when dealing with long lived connections. For many JMS servers it is in fact preferable to creating a new connection each time it is needed.