"lieth78" wrote : | The point is that, with this poorly coded implementation, the delivery seems to stop after 20 or so invocations (as 20 or so messages only are read before the delivery stops). It means that only 20 or so instances of consumer were created. | That does not follow. The messages may have ended up in the consumers that you created and then forgot about. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3984154#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...