If you are using MDBs, then the MDB container lives between JBoss Messaging and your MDB. So if your MDB throws an exception it is caught in the MDB container, which handles redelivery. I don't believe the MDB container contains delayed redelivery functionality. It may be possible to confgure the MDB container to not do redelivery and pass the exception back up , I need to check with Weston to see if it supports that. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4042981#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...