In our case, the messages (1000) are already available in the ActiveMQ queue. i.e for testing purpose, the messages are already posted to the queue and left their without consuming. When the bridge is started, it is actually waiting for secs and consuming the messgaes - there is a delay here eventhough the messages are already available in the source queue. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4241522#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...