Pausing Progress Sonic ESB Service

I recently needed a feature in Sonic ESB where the ESB Service needed to be paused for a period of time.

For the versions of ESB until v7.6, I could not pause the service and leave the messages in the entry point (queue in my case). In v7.6, which is the current version, the interface, XQLifeCycleManager, provides a start/stop functionality.

So, for the previous versions, in the service method, I paused the service before it handles the message as:

synchronized (SERVICE_LOCK) {

if (processMessages==false) {

xqLog.logDebug("entering service lock at:"+new Date());

while (processMessages==false) {

try { SERVICE_LOCK.wait(SERVICE_LOCK_PERIOD); } catch (InterruptedException e) { } }

xqLog.logDebug("exiting service lock at:"+new Date());

} // processMessages

}


while (serviceContext.hasNextIncoming()) {

}