If we would like to subscribe through a virtual queue to the topic topic://test.> in theory we should subscribe to the queue queue://Consumer.a.test.> Unfortunately this doesn't work because the queue queue://Consumer.a.test.> is not created at the subscription step. However, if we create the queue queue://Consumer.a.test.> , for instance sending a message to it, we will have the expected virtual destination behavior. Looking at the virtual destinations semantic, subscribing to queue://Consumer.a.test.> should create the queue queue://Consumer.a.test.>