Issues with durable subscriber and VMPendingDurableSubscriberMessageStoragePolicy

Hi, all,

Has anyone encountered a problem with
VMPendingDurableSubscriberMessageStoragePolicy that it loses persistent
messages when the subscriber re-connects?

We have the following test case fails with
VMPendingDurableSubscriberMessageStoragePolicy set as default destination
policy:
1) publish persistent messages:
void publish(String brokerUrl) {
try {
ConnectionFactory factory = new
ActiveMQConnectionFactory(brokerUrl);
connection = factory.createTopicConnection();
connection.setClientID(CLIENT_ID);

/**
* Create a JMS session
*/
TopicSession session = connection.createTopicSession(false,
Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);

/**
* Fully Qualified Topic Name
*/
String fullyQualifiedTopicName = this.topicName;

/**
* Get the topic instance from the topic name.
*/
Topic topic = session.createTopic(fullyQualifiedTopicName);

/**
* Create a topic subscriber to the topic.
*/
TopicSubscriber ts = session.createDurableSubscriber(topic,
DURABLE_SUB_NAME);

/**
* Create a publisher to publish messages to the topic
*/
TopicPublisher publisher = session.createPublisher(topic);

int deliveryMode = DeliveryMode.PERSISTENT;

/**
* Send and receive 10 messages to the topic.
*/
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
TextMessage tm = session.createTextMessage("msg-" + i);

LOG.info("publishing msg to broker, msg=" + tm.getText());

publisher.publish(topic, tm, deliveryMode, 4, 0);

Thread.sleep(1000);

publisher.close();
session.close();

} catch (Exception e) {
LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
} finally {
try {

connection.close();
} catch (Exception e) {

2) after the messages are published, subscriber connects to receive the
previously published messages:
void consume(String brokerUrl) {
try {
ActiveMQConnectionFactory factory = new
ActiveMQConnectionFactory(brokerUrl);
/**
* Create a topic connection from the obtained connection factory.
*/
connection = factory.createTopicConnection();

connection.setClientID(CLIENT_ID);

/**
* Create a JMS session
*/
TopicSession session = connection.createTopicSession(false,
Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);

/**
* Fully Qualified Topic Name
*/
String fullyQualifiedTopicName = this.topicLocalName;

/**
* Get the topic instance from the topic name.
*/
Topic topic = session.createTopic(fullyQualifiedTopicName);

/**
* Create a topic subscriber to the topic.
*/
TopicSubscriber ts = session.createDurableSubscriber(topic,
DURABLE_SUB_NAME);

/**
* Start the connection - message will be delivered to the
* subscribers.
*/
connection.start();

/**
* Send and receive 10 messages to the topic.
*/
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {

TextMessage tm2 = (TextMessage) ts.receive();

if (tm2 == null) {
throw new RuntimeException("message validation failed.");

LOG.info("receive msg from broker, msg received="
+ tm2.getText());

Thread.sleep(1000);

} catch (Exception e) {
LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
} finally {
try {
connection.close();
} catch (Exception e) {

We noticed that when the default destination policy is set to
VMPendingDurableSubscriberMessageStoragePolicy, the above consume() function
fails and stuck at the blocking call:
TextMessage tm2 = (TextMessage) ts.receive();

Has anyone encountered this issue before? Our version of ActiveMQ is 5.7.0

Thanks a lot!

-Yi