A good idea would be you writing a MC Bean

public class MyBean

{

    public void start()

    {

           // instantiate factories (JNDI or direct instantiation),

          // instantiate a session... etc

          // setup a consumer  (Message listener)

    }

    public void stop()

    {

               // close the connections, sessions.. etc

    }

}

Add it to the server's classpath

And change hornetq-beans.xml to add your bean:

<bean name="MyClient" class="my.package.MyClass/>

You would be on the same VM as the Standalone server. You could even use InVM.

You will probably need a dependency to the HornetQServer, so your bean doesn start before the HornetQServer.