IllegalStateException in Spring's JmsTemplate

I have been using Spring's JmsTemplate to send messages to Queue's and Topic's in SUN Java Message Broker. The code to implement this was really simple you just configure a bean in your context called jmsTemplate with points to class org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate, autowire this bean in your code and there you have all the methods to send all kinds of objects to your JMS destination.

Every thing worked fine, but now and then the jmsTemplate.convertAndSend method used to throw an org.springframework.jms.IllegalStateException: Session closed; nested exception is javax.jms.IllegalStateException: Session closed. Now I am not sure if this is very specific to my version of JMS broker, but some more reading in the spring forum showed that it happens in other JMS brokers aswell. There seems to be a bug with the JmsTemplate spring code especially when it is multithreaded. It seems that the JMS session is shared across multiple threads and at times one thread gets hold of a closed JMS session.

I had to find a way around this issue till the bug is fixed by handling the exception and using a custom boilerplate code for sending JMS messages,which I agree sucks big time.