Hiya Tim. I have not committed anything to svn as I felt the decision on how best to handle this should come from the messaging team. :-) There are two other shutdown methods which could be used depending on what you wish to achieve. The choice of shutdownNow was only made to test the fix. My instinct would be to let the queue drain using shutdownAfterProcessingCurrentlyQueuedTasks rather than to use the shutdownAfterExecutingCurrentTask. Kev View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4027540#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...