Thank you Andy and Clebert for taking the time to explain this in detail. To reiterate, what you are saying is that if I need to have multiple consumers processing messages from a clustered queue in FIFO order, than I should have all my client consumers connect to the same node in the cluster. I assume this means the MessageSucker will be pulling message from the nodes that have no consumers, to the node that has consumers. Got it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4145596#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...