I think the root of this problem is you are not using JBoss Messaging's transparent failover abilities but are catching exceptions yourself and recreating connections manually (which is unnecessary for JBM but necessary for other messaging systems which don't support transparent failover), and this is interacting badly with the transparent failover. This is a somewhat unusual use case but I admit it should work. Actually we are grateful for these kinds of cases since they get to exercise the darker edge cases which wouldn't otherwise get excercised. Nevertheless I will try and get to the root of the problem to find out the cause. BTW reconnecting to a failed server should work fine, so I am baffled what is going on there. In fact this is exactly what the message bridge does - if one of its servers goes down it retries at intervals and reconnects when the node is up - this works like a treat. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4026536#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...