hornetq

I am using Hornetq 2.0 i dont understand how can i know how many message are sitting on the queue at the moment. This is a very useful feature so i can know at runtime if my consumer consume message fast enough. I am not using the JMS api but the highly optimised core API. What is the right (fastest) way to get the number of message in the queue ? I found 2 way but don't know what is the proper way to do it. public int size(){ ClientSession session; try { session = sf.createSession(false, false, false); ClientRequestor requestor = new ClientRequestor(session, "hornetq.management");

I have a JBoss-6 server with HornetQ and a single queue: <queue name="my.queue"> <entry name="/queue/test"/> </queue> There a different consumers (on different machines) connected to this queue, but only a single consumer is active at a time. If I shut down this consumer, the messages are immediately processed by one of the other consumers. Since my messages have some time consuming processing, I want multiple consumer process their unique messages concurrently. I remember a similar in earlier versions of JBoss where this setup worked without problems. Here in Jboss-6 the messaging system is