Since you mentioned Hermes, I assume you're talking about JMS messages, in which case you probably want to work at a higher level than Remoting. JBoss has an implementation of JMS called JBossMessaging which will let you create connections, consume messages, etc. And, of course, it's open source. A good place to get started is to go to http://labs.jboss.com/projects and look for the JBossMessaging project. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4050413#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...