"bsmithjj" wrote : says the same thing but our experience is that @In does not get honored for the onMessage() calls by the container Sorry, just trying to help you out :( Dunno about the Timeout stuff, no experience of that. I did some work with a message driven bean for receiving emails and, as I said, @In did work for me. I've just taken a look at the code (unfortunately its in pieces at the moment) I had I seem to have used @Logger (and it was certainly writing out log messages). If you post the MDB you are trying to get working I'll check it against what I have? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012455#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...