The use of hostname in string format at ra.xml causes HornetQ to retain sessions during failover

-Configure a two node HA cluster, a live/backup pair ; (L) & (B) -Create a Queue on both nodes, queue/A -Setup a standalone JBoss-EAP-5.1.2 (S) instance and configure it's RAR to failover -Deploy a MDB on the server "S". You could set minSession,maxSessions to 5 -Open JMX Console and see the consumer count at node "L" -You could see node "L" having 5 as its consumer count node "B" having "0" -Kill the live Node L and verify the consumer count on node B -You could see 4 sessions instead of 5

An issue was discovered which affected HornetQ high-availability clusters and failover. If in the <filename>ra.xml</filename> the hostname was specified as a string, any active session would not failover to a backup node. The root cause of this issue has been resolved and hostnames in string format are no longer a problem for failover.