I think we should extend the concept of splitting packets into fragments to other packets too - not just message sends and receives, since other packets have the possibility (however unlikely) of getting large, since there are not fixed length fields like address names in them. I would suggest a generic mechanism that can take any packet and encode it into a set of messagingbuffers - in most cases only one buffer would be produced. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4163569#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...