- Introduction
- 1. Legal Notice
- 2. Preface
- 3. Project Info
- 4. Messaging Concepts
- 5. Architecture
- 6. Using the Server
- 7. Using JMS
- 8. Using Core
- 9. Mapping JMS Concepts to the Core API
- 10. The Client Classpath
- 11. Examples
- 12. Routing Messages With Wild Cards
- 13. Understanding the Apache ActiveMQ Artemis Wildcard Syntax
- 14. Filter Expressions
- 15. Persistence
- 16. Configuring Transports
- 17. Detecting Dead Connections
- 18. Detecting Slow Consumers
- 19. Resource Manager Configuration
- 20. Flow Control
- 21. Guarantees of sends and commits
- 22. Message Redelivery and Undelivered Messages
- 23. Message Expiry
- 24. Large Messages
- 25. Paging
- 26. Queue Attributes
- 27. Scheduled Messages
- 28. Last-Value Queues
- 29. Message Grouping
- 30. Extra Acknowledge Modes
- 31. Management
- 32. Security
- 33. Resource Limits
- 34. The JMS Bridge
- 35. Client Reconnection and Session Reattachment
- 36. Diverting and Splitting Message Flows
- 37. Core Bridges
- 38. Duplicate Message Detection
- 39. Clusters
- 40. High Availability and Failover
- 41. Graceful Server Shutdown
- 42. Libaio Native Libraries
- 43. Thread management
- 44. Logging
- 45. REST Interface
- 46. Embedding Apache ActiveMQ Artemis
- 47. Spring Integration
- 48. AeroGear Integration
- 49. VertX Integration
- 50. Intercepting Operations
- 51. Protocols and Interoperability
- 52. Tools
- 53. Maven Plugin
- 54. Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning
- 55. Configuration Reference
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# ActiveMQ Artemis Documentation

# Routing Messages With Wild Cards

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis allows the routing of messages via wildcard addresses.

If a queue is created with an address of say `queue.news.#` then it will receive any messages sent to addresses that match this, for instance `queue.news.europe` or `queue.news.usa` or `queue.news.usa.sport`. If you create a consumer on this queue, this allows a consumer to consume messages which are sent to a hierarchy of addresses.

> Note

> In JMS terminology this allows "topic hierarchies" to be created.

To enable this functionality set the property `wild-card-routing-enabled` in the `broker.xml` file to `true`. This is `true` by default.

For more information on the wild card syntax take a look at wildcard syntax chapter, also see the topic hierarchy example in the examples.