How about adding quotes to your selector? | JMSCorrelationID='1179926940029' | BTW are you sure you want to be be using selectors for something as dynamic as correlation ids? Setting a consumer with a selector is likely to be a fairly slow operation (compared to sending/receiving a message) and probably not something you want to do to implement a request/response pattern. Have you considered using temporary queues instead? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4047963#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...