Sounds like you want to change your MDB to use the "Singleton Message Driven Bean" container configuration. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4065332#4065332 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4065332