hi julians37, I just remembered, that you need to set your expire time in send method of message producer send(Destination destination, Message message, int deliveryMode, int priority, long timeToLive) you cannot set your message expiration by using setJMSExpiration. May be you are using this way to set your message expiration?? Btw, in my opinion you can use JMS timestamp to select messages by age. Best Regards, Hendra View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4091711#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...