AMQP Messages should store actual expiration and survive between restarts on durable messages

1) Configure the expiry-delay on an address setting : <address-setting match= "#" > <dead-letter-address>DLQ</dead-letter-address> <expiry-address>ExpiryQueue</expiry-address> <expiry-delay>300000</expiry-delay> <redelivery-delay>0</redelivery-delay> <!-- with -1 only the global-max-size is in use for limiting --> <max-size-bytes>-1</max-size-bytes> <message-counter-history-day-limit>10</message-counter-history-day-limit> <address-full-policy>PAGE</address-full-policy> <auto-create-queues> true </auto-create-queues> <auto-create-addresses> true </auto-create-addresses> <auto-create-jms-queues> true </auto-create-jms-queues> <auto-create-jms-topics> true </auto-create-jms-topics> </address-setting> 2) Send messages to a queue under that address using an AMQP producer. Used the quickstart amqp/queue example [consumer part commented] . 3) Browse the messages and you will see the proper expiration is set on the header based on what was configured for the expiry-delay. 4) Restart the broker 5) Browse the messages again and you will see that the expiration header has been set back to 0. The message will now no longer expire.