Hello seijoed, Thanks for the reply.
That sound like the way to go given the options I've looked at. I did find something earlier that looked very promising, the BrokerService, which I tried to use as follows @Reference public void setBrokerService(BrokerService service{..} The problem with this is that I use both the client/server features and the org.apache.activemq.broker package is split across bundles, which causes the osgi container problems. I'm not sure if the BrokerService would have given me exactly what I needed, but my thinking was that the bundle would not have started up until the BrokerService was available to service requests. Sadly, that route doesn't appear to be open, and your suggestion seems to be the best way to proceed. Thanks again, Stephen -- Sent from: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-User-f2341805.html