I've been trying something similar on jboss 5 beta 4 and I am able to deploy the message-driven MBean. I am using EJB3.0 with annotations to avoid the XML files. My problem is that Mbean will not receive the actual JMS message. The Jboss throws ClassCastException. I am starting to think that jboss 5 beta 4 does not fully support JBoss Messaging yet. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4135627#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...