anonymous wrote : Expired messages are not removed from persistence (JBM_MSG) util an acknoledge is called That's correct, all messages must be kept in storage until they are properly consumed, i.e. they have been acknowledged or rolled back. If they are acked they are deleted from the database, if the message is rolled back it is re scheduled for delivery, if at thi stime it has expired it is then deleted. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4194392#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...