"tfennelly" wrote : ... what I meant was that this seems like a bug to me (JmsSession.releaseResources aside), because it seems to be happening at the wrong time. Shouldn't the resources be released/cleaned-up before the session is returned to the "free" pool? Shouldn't returning it to the pool be the last step in the process. But the method is synchronized and, with the exception of the releaseResources behaviour, will be atomic. Kev View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4230853#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...