In that version a database is required for persisting queue/topic information as well as message data. If you're not persisting message data you could just use a simple database like HSQL for persisting your queue/topic information. In the next 1.4 release there will be a null persistence configuration which does no persistence at all - even for queues/topics. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4139225#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...