Can you post your code how you are sending messages?
If you attempt to send a message when the JMS server is down, you will probably have an exception, and have to deal with that. When you attempt to send a message the next time, when the JMS server is restarted and running, you probably create a new connection from your connection factory. Reconnection will happend then:
// Let's say, you inject CF and Dest.
@Resource(lookup = "jms/ConnectionFactory")
private static ConnectionFactory cf;
@Resource(lookup = "jms/MyQueue")
private static Destination dest;
public void sendMessage(){ // called every time you need to send a message.
try{
Connection con = cf.createConnection(); // will reconnect, otherwise pooled.
Session sess = con.createSession(false,Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
MessageProducer prod = sess.createProducer(dest);
Message msg = sess.createTextMessage("Hello, World");
prod.send(msg);
sess.close();
con.close();
}catch(Exception e){
// handle errors
}
}
However, there are some built in failover/reconnecting features in Weblogic JMS, take a look at this page:
Oracle code listing and documentation about reconnecting JMS producers