Hello,

I am pretty new to JBoss ESB and just came across few links on it that talked of aggregator (of JMS messages) capabilities. I was wondering id this can be utilized in my application to solve following -

I have  a clustered J2EE application, that comprises of eJB's+MDB's, Queues, Spring and Hibernate, that can be deployed to multiple app servers. One use case is huge number of messages having keys getting pumped into a queue and then these messages are picked up my MDB's. Since my application is clustered, any MDB instance on any server of the cluster can pick up the message and process it and so its possible messaaages that have arrived later on queue can be processed earlier since they are picked up by MDB instances on a superior machine and so it proocesses earlier .

The objective is the messages having the same keys are picked up and processed in the same sequence in which they are pumped into the Queue. Of course, this doesn't work in a clustered environment and we have resorted to a singleton mDB picking up all messages and processing it and thereby reducing performance.

So the question is can I use JBoss ESB aggregation service (reading from my queue) that will aggregate messages on basis of correlation id ( set to key of messages) and then pump the aggregated message (comprising of messages with same key) in to another JMS queue so that MDB instances in a clustered environment reads a bunch of messages(aggregated message by ESB aggregator) in one go and thereby improving performance.

Thanks,

Jatin