How to find out if JMS Connection is there?

Question

In JMS it is easy to find out if a connection is lost, a exception happens. But how do I find out if the connection is there again?

Scenario: I use JMS to communicat

Answer 1

JMS spec does not describe any transport protocol, it does not say anything about connections (i.e. should broker keep them alive or establish a new connection for every session). So, I think what you mean by

Now my connection breaks (server is down), which results in a exception.

is that you are trying to send a message and you are getting a JmsException.

I think, the only way to see if broker is up is to try to send a message.