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List the message acknowledgment modes in ActiveMQ?

JMS sessions in ActiveMQ support four acknowledgment modes:

  • AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE - acknowledged automatically right after the message is received.
  • CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE - the client explicitly calls acknowledge().
  • DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE - lazy acknowledgment that tolerates occasional duplicates for better throughput.
  • SESSION_TRANSACTED - acknowledgment is tied to a transaction commit.

Choosing between them is a throughput-versus-safety trade-off: AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE and DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE are simplest and fastest but riskier if processing fails after the message is already considered handled, while CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE and SESSION_TRANSACTED give the application explicit control over exactly when a message is considered done, at the cost of a little extra code.

Which mode acknowledges automatically right after receive() returns?
Which mode lets the consumer decide exactly when to acknowledge?

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