Does JMS have a concept of a queue peek?

java, jms, peek, queue

Solution

1) If you want to receive messages synchroneously use MessageConsumer.receive

2) Basically, 'peek' in queues means to return, but do not remove, the head of the queue. For this you can use QueueBrowser to look at messages on a queue without removing them.

Problem

From a general Computer Science perspective - when we think of a Queue in a logical sense - we think of being able to 'peek' the first item in the queue. When I look at the JMS API - it has a `MessageListener` - which has an `OnMessage()` method. This feels a little bit like "don't call us- we'll call you." Does JMS have a concept of a queue peek?

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