Madhu- I'm not sure if I understand your question still. a) Clearly each individually subscriber receives messages in order. Is that what you mean? b) Or do you mean that each consumer receives the same particular message before receiving the same particular message? b) would be extremely difficult (and not desirable) to do since it would involve distributed locking. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4098974#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...