public void onMessage(Message inMessage) { TextMessage msg = null; try { if (inMessage instanceof TextMessage) { msg = (TextMessage) inMessage; System.out.println("MESSAGE BEAN: Message received: " + msg.getText()); long sleepTime = msg.getLongProperty("sleeptime"); System.out.println("Sleeping for : " + sleepTime + " milli seconds "); Thread.sleep(sleepTime); queueConnection = queueConnectionFactory.createQueueConnection(); queueSession = queueConnection.createQueueSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE); queueSender = queueSession.createSender(queue); TextMessage message = queueSession.createTextMessage(); message.setText("REPLIED:" + msg.getText()); message.setIntProperty("replyid", msg.getIntProperty("id")); System.out.println("Sending message: " + message.getText()); queueSender.send(message); } else { System.out.println("Message of wrong type: " + inMessage.getClass().getName()); } } catch (JMSException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (Throwable te) { te.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { queueSession.close(); queueConnection.close(); } catch (Exception e) { } } } // onMessage