Using jboss-messaging-1.4.0.SP3 and jboss-4.2.1.GA I made a test forcing the connection to the database to be broken for a while and then restart the connection. The result is that the bridge disconnects from remote server if the connection to the database is broken and then tries to reconnect. Thats fine. The problem is, that with each reconnect messages are consumed but not persisted anymore, even if the connection to the database is reastablished. The next thing is that the bridge does not stop to disconnect and reconnect after reastablishing the connection to the database. I did the test twice, in the first test I was able to restart the bridge as rogerdudler described. In the second test I wasn't able to do that. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4174983#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...