Hello, "ataylor" wrote : There may be a way of stopping the MDB from consuming messages i don't know, speak to the App server guys they could help you. Thanks a lot for your reply. I read this as "a JBM queue can't be controlled the way you want it", right? So I'll go and figure how to play with the MDBs :-) "timfox" wrote : Or you could write a simple cron like program that deploys and undeploys the MDBs at the required times. Thanks for this hint, albeit it sounds a little bit drastics it seems to be an, at least, quiet simple solution :-) -- Regards, P. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4171479#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...