"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : The problem is related to the StateCreationAspect not being applied when the jms activation connection is created. Its in the aop config that is loaded, but seems to be applied too late. Ok. I had a poke around in the messaging code but I wasn't able to spot anything that would cause this (I don't know the code so that's not surprising). My guess is that it's a classloading issue as Clerbert says (as this is how Embedded differs most from AS). If anyone who does know the code can spare some time to help with this let me know offline and I can walk you through how to reproduce this etc. Otherwise, I guess we just have to release Embedded beta3 and label JMS/Messaging as not working. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4118101#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...