I have solved the main part of the problem. We were running with an out of date oracle-persistence-service.xml definition. Sorry for the alarm. We are still getting the following error when we start JBoss up: 10:04:31,904 ERROR [ExceptionUtil] SessionEndpoint[-2147483645] createQueue [5c4o23-anhvr9-eqpssjns-1-eqpssxsw-4] javax.jms.JMSException: There is no administratively defined queue with name:publish.request at org.jboss.jms.server.endpoint.ServerSessionEndpoint.createQueue(ServerSessionEndpoint.java:341) at org.jboss.jms.server.endpoint.advised.SessionAdvised.org$jboss$jms$server$endpoint$advised$SessionAdvised$createQueue$aop(SessionAdvised.java:96) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:112) at org.jboss.jms.server.container.ServerLogInterceptor.invoke(ServerLogInterceptor.java:105) at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101) at org.jboss.aop.Advisor.dynamicInvoke(Advisor.java:723) at org.jboss.aop.Dispatcher.invoke(Dispatcher.java:101) at org.jboss.jms.server.remoting.JMSServerInvocationHandler.invoke(JMSServerInvocationHandler.java:126) at org.jboss.remoting.ServerInvoker.invoke(ServerInvoker.java:999) at org.jboss.remoting.ServerInvoker.invoke(ServerInvoker.java:848) at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.processInvocation(ServerThread.java:447) at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.dorun(ServerThread.java:534) at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.run(ServerThread.java:257) Even though that queue does exist and I can see it in the JMX console. It doesn't seem to effect the queues operation though. When we shut down, we still get the exception shown below but it doesn't seem to affect the operation of the queue when we start JBoss back up. 10:59:53,896 FATAL [RegularObjectPersister] error java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeSlotWithMethod(RegularObjectPersister.java:120) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3964513#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...