"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : [The client side should not hang or break if the Server/ServerPeer vanishes, | it should behave in a reasonable way, i.e. give a reasonable error message. Yes, the client should get the following error message: throw new MessagingJMSException("Cannot handle invocation since messaging server is not active (it is either starting up or shutting down)"); Clebert- is this not what you are seeing? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4097009#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...