java - Unable to restart a DefaultMessageListenerContainer -

we're using spring 4.3.1, , getting messages queue using following bean:

    @bean(name="listenercontainer") public sprmessagelistenercontainer listenercontainer() throws jmsexception, sqlexception {     sprmessagelistenercontainer listenercontainer = new sprmessagelistenercontainer();     listenercontainer.setconnectionfactory((connectionfactory) connectionfactory());     listenercontainer.setmessagelistener(messagelistener());     listenercontainer.setsessiontransacted(true);     listenercontainer.setcachelevel(0);     listenercontainer.setmaxconcurrentconsumers(3);     listenercontainer.setdestinationname("ourqueue");     // (april 2017): provide possibility manually stop/start listner container > autostart needs set false, otherwise can stop container, not restart anymore     //                   see: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/jms/listener/abstractjmslisteningcontainer.html#setautostartup-boolean-     listenercontainer.settransactionmanager(jmstransactionmanager());     listenercontainer.setautostartup(false);     listenercontainer.start();     assert.istrue(listenercontainer.isrunning());     return listenercontainer; }  @bean(name="connectionfactory") public connectionfactory connectionfactory() throws jmsexception, sqlexception {     return aqjmsfactory.getconnectionfactory(datasourceconfig.gpdatasourceadapter()); }      private jmstransactionmanager jmstransactionmanager() throws jmsexception, sqlexception {     jmstransactionmanager transactionmanager = new jmstransactionmanager();     transactionmanager.setconnectionfactory(connectionfactory());     return transactionmanager; } 

sprmessagelistenercontainer is:

public class sprmessagelistenercontainer extends defaultmessagelistenercontainer {  @override protected messageconsumer createconsumer(session session, destination destination) throws jmsexception {     return ((aqjmssession) session).createconsumer(destination, null, new sproradatafactory(), null, false); }  @override protected void doshutdown() throws jmsexception {     logger.info("shutting done.");  } 

}

in our application, correctly reference our listenercontainer bean. when application start, listener correctly started, , see message getting processed.

in our code, do:

listenercontainer.shutdown(); 

then, no message processed anymore > expected.

but, further in our code, do:

listenercontainer.start(); 

we expect messages processed again, it's not case, nothing happen (we don't exception and/or error).

is wrongly configured in our bean? missing in order manually stop/start our container?

well ... answering myself ... missing call afterpropertiesset() method.