Please don't ask me to drop MDBs :-). I have tinkered with so many options since last month (including ActiveMQ), and settled on this one - at least it is working! I figured this is the best way to get robust connection pooling. Based on this, I even gave up my easier war packaging for an ear. So hope there's a better way to get MDBs performing - may be drop XA transactions and do some tricks like commit DB and then commit JMS. Thanks. Naresh View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4244210#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...