1) By "socket" do you mean http connections/threads? If so, look at server/xxx/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/server.xml. The < Connector > entries have various properties, such as maxThreads, that govern thread/connection creation and pooling. For documentation, see http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html 2) There is no built-in mechanism to prioritize messages, as far as I know. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4030243#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...