"thomasra" wrote : The version of ActiveMQ is vanilla 4.1.1. | | Like I said earlier: using a connectionfactory and a rar file, along with actually creating a new Message from the ActiveMQ session, copying the content to the new message _does_ work. That shouldn't be necessary. Part of the JMS spec says a JMS 1.1 compliant provider *must* be able to to accept messages from another JMS provider for sending (this is called a foreign message). I'm not sure if ActiveMQ is JMS compliant - I shall take a look at their source and see.... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4053832#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...