Why you opened a new thread.. you should have kept using that same thread. http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=133370 MDBs should aways use the current server they are on, right? What's the point of a MDB talking to a remote server when the server is already there. But you have that option though.. you just the jmsra at jms-ds.xml, but that seams too weird. Look at the manual, and you will also find some properties you can add to the Connectionfactory: http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbossmessaging/freezone/... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4143456#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...