Heartbeats

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It looks like the client is sending a the broker a heartbeat value, but,
being single threaded, I'm presuming that it's not maintaining actual
heartbeats.

What's the status of this feature? Should heartbeats always be 0?

As a side question, in the absence of heartbeats, what's a good/cheap way
to actively test the broker connection to confirm we can still talk to the
broker? E.g. as a hack (or maybe good design, shrug :) I'm declaring a
non-durable queue whose sole purpose is to let me communicate with the broker.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by g%[email protected] on 1 Sep 2009 at 1:25