If you use a clustered connection factory and set 'supportsfailover' to true, the client will reconnect to another node transparently. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4166884#4166884 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4166884