Tim, Thank you so much for the response. I can certainly switch to Topics for now and move to the JMSXGroupId later. The final question I have is about the best practices with connections. As I asked in one of my previous posts to this thread: Is it better to have one connection per consumer or pool connections between consumers in the same process? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3960131#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...