Patent ID: 7512668

Claim:
A method employed within a network comprising: receiving a notification at a first server node that a Java Message Service (JMS)-based server instance on a second server node is inoperative, the inoperative JMS-based server instance having one or more destinations, wherein at least one of the first server node and the second server node is a Java 2 Enterprise Edition-based application server; and, in response to receiving the notification, obtaining a lock for at least a portion of JMS-based server instance configuration information from a locking service, wherein the portion of JMS-based server instance configuration information includes the one or more destinations; and, subsequently, acquiring the one or more destinations of the inoperative JMS-based server instance at the first server node, wherein the acquiring comprises acquiring at least one of a queue of the inoperative JMS-based server instance and a topic of the inoperative JMS-based server instance.