anonymous wrote : it is waiting up to given time and simply throwing exception What is the exception that you are seeing? Post the stacktrace. anonymous wrote : message is comming null The message will be null if after waiting for 'n' milli seconds, the message is not received. anonymous wrote : Message message = qReceiver.receive(veryHighValue); or anonymous wrote : Message message = qReceiver.receive(); and see if the message is received. This will help in understanding whether the receieve itself is not working or the timeout value is low View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958428#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...