What is your desired behaviour if a session bean attempts to send a message to this Queue after it becomes unbound at the end of the timer process? If "gets an exception and handles it gracefully" is what you want, this looks valid. You're creating a handler that will be available for a timed window that you specify, it looks. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4052906#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...