"ataylor" wrote : There may be a way of stopping the MDB from consuming messages i don't know, speak to the App server guys they could help you. Alternatively you couls write you're own mbean that consumes from the queue and stop and start the connection your self. Or you could write a simple cron like program that deploys and undeploys the MDBs at the required times. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4171438#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...