I have an idea of how to workaround the problem: Create a topic for ping messages, e.g. /topic/ping. and each system that consumes messages should setup a topic subscriber on /topic/ping. The subscriber should run a timer/timout thread to check if the last received ping message was a long time ago > TIMOUT. But I thought that the concept with the ExceptionListener should free the developer from such things, to use the messaging system in order to check its connection with it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4135877#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...