# 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.

This functionality is enabled by default. To turn it off add the following to the `broker.xml` configuration.

    <wildcard-addresses>
       <routing-enabled>false</routing-enabled>
    </wildcard-addresses>

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

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