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

In our app, we will have connections/sessions/consumers/producers open for months at a time. We've had to work with our vendor (BEA) to make that work reliably. But any troubles with that is a bug the vendor needs to fix.