"bstansberry(a)jboss.com" wrote : | | I'm still not sure I understand. I completely understand about what the failover server needs to do; just not certain about why it matters which node the client connects to. | | Is it because the recovered messages were part of a session, and to properly maintain the guaranteed order of delivery of messages from a particular JMS session, the client has to connect to the correct server? Because the queues the client is consuming from will only exist on one node (the node that the original node failed over to), so the client must connect to that one. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3977571#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...