You haven't explained why it is a problem for you to have both connections created on the same node. If you use a connection factory with loadBalancing = true, then it will round robin the creation of the connections on the two nodes. This gives a good distribution of connections when you have many connections. I can only assume from your post that you actually want your connections always created on the same node given a specific connection factory?? In which case deploy a cf with supportsLoadBalancing = false; See the userguide for more details: http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/jbossmessaging/freezone... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4056190#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...