Correct, the method you are invoking is reserved only for application clients and generally should not be used by other application components. However, this can be relaxed by setting the following in your *-ds.xml file for your JMS connection factory <config-property name="Strict">False</config-property> this will turn off the strict spec compliant behavior. Be forwarned however that if portablity is something you care about don't do this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993947#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...