ActiveMQ Issue Reproduced – Similar to AMQ-6594. NUll Pointer Exception

[OmkarGShet]

I have encountered and successfully reproduced an issue in my application that appears to be similar to AMQ-6594. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-6594

It is occurring everytime in my logs

Logs:
2026-04-20T11:43:06.242794Z, warning, , [NTFDispatcherThreadPool-thread-3465] [CustomMessageListener:refreshConnectionUntilSuccessful:982] | Could not refresh JMS Connection for destination 'HSS-RR-DEFAULT13' - retrying in 5000 ms. Cause: Error while attempting to add new Connection to the pool; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.apache.activemq.jms.pool.ConnectionPool.incrementReferenceCount()" because "connection" is null

jakarta.jms.JMSException: Error while attempting to add new Connection to the pool

           at org.apache.activemq.jms.pool.PooledConnectionFactory.createJmsException(PooledConnectionFactory.java:312)

           at org.apache.activemq.jms.pool.PooledConnectionFactory.createConnection(PooledConnectionFactory.java:231)

           at org.apache.activemq.jms.pool.PooledConnectionFactory.createConnection(PooledConnectionFactory.java:210)

           at org.springframework.jms.support.JmsAccessor.createConnection(JmsAccessor.java:208)

           at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractJmsListeningContainer.createSharedConnection(AbstractJmsListeningContainer.java:434)

           at org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractJmsListeningContainer.refreshSharedConnection(AbstractJmsListeningContainer.java:416)

           at notifs.messaging_camel.wrapper.CustomMessageListener.refreshConnectionUntilSuccessful(CustomMessageListener.java:963)

           at notifs.messaging_camel.wrapper.CustomMessageListener.recoverAfterListenerSetupFailure(CustomMessageListener.java:942)

           at notifs.messaging_camel.wrapper.CustomMessageListener$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.run(CustomMessageListener.java:1113)

           at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1144)

           at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642)

           at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.apache.activemq.jms.pool.ConnectionPool.incrementReferenceCount()" because "connection" is null

           at org.apache.activemq.jms.pool.PooledConnectionFactory.createConnection(PooledConnectionFactory.java:229)

           ... 10 more

Versions :

JDK – 21
activeMQVersion = '6.2.0'
camelVersion = '4.18.0'
spring-7.0.2

Can u please let us know in version do we have the fix for this?

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