I think you need a Topic with subscribers and selectors for the regular day-to-day operation. And you also probably need a request mechanism on receiving the initial information. Maybe the client creates a temporary queue, send a request to receive the initial information, and the initial information comes on that queue. On the day-by-day basis you would have the durable selector receiving the information. I feel like spoiling the surprise suggesting you this :-) , but there is a great JMS example on JBoss Messaging 2 which explains what I' m suggesting to you in terms of Request-Reply: svn co http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/messaging/trunk/examples/jms/request-reply Look at the readme.. it bring a lot of information. if you want to run the example: svn co http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/messaging/trunk messaging cd messaging ant cd examples/jms/request-reply and View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4231976#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...