Thanks Jay for the quick response :) You seem to have pointed out everything that I thought of (especially point 2 and 3). However I never knew that JBM has a optimized load balancer. Point 2 was something I tried before posting here; but I couldn’t find a way of applying dynamic selectors on MDB. I had it set in the annotation! If there is a way of dynamically setting the selector, this approach looks clean (I could even get some unique information about a node from JMX and set it) Point 3 is something I wanted to try out, but will probably not after seeing your reply :) We are still in development and definitely targeting JBoss 5.0. However JBoss5.0 CR2 has its own issues 1. Slow startup 2. I had a tough time resolving the PostOffice error while setting 5.0 Cluster (Finally resolved by setting a different value for jboss.messaging.ServerPeerID 3. No farming service 4. We use JDK 1.6 and JAX-WS Web services doesn't work out of the box I am sure some of these are going to be resolved by GA release, but I want one final opinion from you Should I go with JBM on JBoss 5.0 ? or Should I try to integrate JBM with JBoss 4.2.2 (Is the optimized load balancer feature in JBM dependent on JBoss?) Thanks Venu View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4178829#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...