Error show in tomcat logs

[viswamkalva]

I see the following error suddenly from today in my tomcat logs and no messages are read from queue in my application, could anyone help me on this:
component.jms.DefaultJmsMessageListenerContainer Could not refresh JMS Connection for destination 'EmployeeQueue' - retrying using FixedBackOff{interval=5000, currentAttempts=1, maxAttempts=unlimited}. Cause: unable to get a connection from pool of a PoolingConnectionFactory with an XAPool of resource jms/ConnectionFactory with 10 connection(s) (0 still available)

[lorban]

The problem seems to be caused by a depleted JMS connection pool:

unable to get a connection from pool of a PoolingConnectionFactory with an XAPool of resource jms/ConnectionFactory with 10 connection(s) (0 still available)

So you've configured a jms/ConnectionFactory pool with a max size of 10 and all 10 connections are used up. This can mean two things:

1. Your pool is too small for the load you have, and some threads will timeout trying to get a connection from the pool. If your pool eventually recovers (you can monitor how many connections are available by calling PoolingConnectionFactory.getInPoolSize(), or by accessing the JMX MBean) this probably means this is the case.

2. Connections are being leaked, one way or another. The most probable case is that your code forgets to call close() on the Connection object returned by PoolingConnectionFactory.createConnection(). The JMX MBeans should list all connections and each one has a transactionGtridsCurrentlyHoldingThis property that should help you figure out what transaction is still holding a particular connection. That info, coupled with the list of in-flight transactions identified by their GTRID allows your to find the name of the thread that holds the transaction. This isn't the complete path to the code that leaked the connection, but it should help you narrow down the code that's responsible for that leak.

[viswamkalva]

Thanks. My issue was falling under 1st point you mentioned.