What you really want to do is throttle at the consumer level, i.e. JMS connection level or through the inflow adapter. Unfortunately, JBossMQ (and JBM) do not support this as a feature. Easier might be the latter. Take a look at this example: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossJCAMessageInflowExample Then consider wrapping the existing JCA implementation, adding your own activation properties, and of course add code to actually throttle. Though, I'm not sure where all of this might go. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4098538#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...