Please ignore the previous post. We have discovered that the client is opening a listening socket; it was probably that we had a firewall/configuration issue, and we can now successfully send messages between client and server. It looks like multiplexing would greatly simplify the network setup work we'd need to do to deploy this; is this ready for use/testing? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3975699#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...