I think I just answered my own question with some more google searching. I found the following discussion on this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19538374/activemq-mapmessage-receive-message-with-empty-thetable Seems that until you actually parse into the MapMessage contents explicitly, attempts to stringify it will show the contents to be empty, by design. -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/MapMessage-received-it-always-empty-tp4721053p4721056.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.