There is already some discussion on the following jira issue about message expiration with JBossMQ: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4328 There is disaggrement as to if this is bug or not, nevertheless, Carlo's testcase fails as follows: http://cruisecontrol.jboss.com/cc/artifacts/jboss-4.2-testsuite-sun-1.5/2... Maybe we need a 3rd party (Tim) to express an opinion. If there is no resolution by Friday/4th, I'm going to exclude the test from the testsuite. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4042372#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...