Yes selectors do not work well with paged messages. To implement it otherwise would be difficult - we'd have to scan the entire file store for matching messages every time a consumer is added. If you find yourself needing functionality like this, then it sounds like you need a database not a messaging system! Databases are designed to do exactly this kind of thing: Large tables of data which can't all fit in memory and "select" subsets of rows matching a criteria. Messaging systems support this kind of functionality to some extent, but it is not their primary purpose! View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4233511#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...