If you could explain to me *exactly* what you did to see the issue that would be the best way to handle this. Imagine I am an idiot (it won't take much stretch of the imagination). Then you: 1) Deployed MDB consuming from queue A 2) Sent 20 messages to queue A from a jms client 3) Browsed queue A - oops! I can't see any messages Something like the above would be great. (My previous question was how do you know that MDB just hasn't consumed the messages between 2) and 3) ) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4049794#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...