Quality Of Service: ONCE_AND_ONLY_ONCE
33.4.3. ONCE_AND_ONLY_ONCE This QoS mode ensures messages will reach the destination from the source once and only once. (Sometimes this mode is known as "exactly once"). If both the source and the destination are on the same HornetQ server instance then this can be achieved by sending and acknowledging the messages in the same local transaction. If the source and destination are on different servers this is achieved by enlisting the sending and consuming sessions in a JTA transaction. The JTA transaction is controlled by JBoss Transactions JTA * implementation which is a fully recovering transaction manager, thus providing a very high degree of durability. If JTA is required then both supplied connection factories need to be XAConnectionFactory implementations. This is likely to be the slowest mode since it requires extra persistence for the transaction logging. This mode is only available for durable messages. Note For a specific application it may possible to provide once and only once semantics without using the ONCE_AND_ONLY_ONCE QoS level. This can be done by using the DUPLICATES_OK mode and then checking for duplicates at the destination and discarding them. Some JMS servers provide automatic duplicate message detection functionality, or this may be possible to implement on the application level by maintaining a cache of received message ids on disk and comparing received messages to them. The cache would only be valid for a certain period of time so this approach is not as watertight as using ONCE_AND_ONLY_ONCE but may be a good choice depending on your specific application.