Final thing to note: In 95% of user deployments, message redistribution is NOT necessary. Typically users deploy a homogeneous bank of MDBs (or other consumers) across the cluster - the same ones on each node. Client producing connections are also load balanced across the cluster. Since there's an even mix of producers/consumers across the cluster there's no need to distribute. Distribution is uiseful in the case: 1) You have a bank of many consumers on a cluster but only, say., one or two consumers on a small number of nodes. 2) As above but swap producers with consumers View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4130052#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...