As I mentioned before, the message consumer will prefetch messages from a queue. So if you add 20 messages to the queue and have a consumer they will all be prefetched into the consumer, so they are no longer on the queue to be browsed. So in your "step by step", not seeing messages in the queue is expected behaviour. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4049818#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...