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<p>If you want to consume messages in a different order, or consume specific messages at the head, middle or tail of the queue, you can</p>

<ul><li>browse the messages using the QueueBrowser to find the JMSMessageID's of the messages you want to consume</li><li>create a new consumer with a selector matching the ID(s) you want.</li></ul>


<p>e.g. here is an example selector</p>

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JMSMessageID = 'abc'
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<p>Note that this is not a very efficient way of working with JMS (JMS is designed for consumers to be long lived objects working across many messageS), but it can be useful in certain situations.</p>

<p>Another option is just to use <link><page ri:content-title="JMX"></page></link> directly to browse messages on a queue, process them and then delete them.</p></div>