You can tell it failed to the load message because there is no HARD in the message desription. It should be: anonymous wrote : 2 msg=232 HARD STORED PERSISTENT queue=QUEUE.DLQ | priority=4 lateClone=false hashCode=22159791 since it has just invoked makeHard() on the message reference which executes the code "fixed" in the above "bug report". View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4115008#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...