diff --git a/alfresco-docker-alfresco-pdf-renderer/src/main/resources/application.properties b/alfresco-docker-alfresco-pdf-renderer/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5dde9b28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alfresco-docker-alfresco-pdf-renderer/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+queue.engineRequestQueue=${TRANSFORM_ENGINE_REQUEST_QUEUE:org.alfresco.transform.engine.alfresco-pdf-renderer.acs}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/alfresco-docker-imagemagick/src/main/resources/application.properties b/alfresco-docker-imagemagick/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..858dc70f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alfresco-docker-imagemagick/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+queue.engineRequestQueue=${TRANSFORM_ENGINE_REQUEST_QUEUE:org.alfresco.transform.engine.imagemagick.acs}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/alfresco-docker-libreoffice/src/main/resources/application.properties b/alfresco-docker-libreoffice/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..321c56ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alfresco-docker-libreoffice/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+queue.engineRequestQueue=${TRANSFORM_ENGINE_REQUEST_QUEUE:org.alfresco.transform.engine.libreoffice.acs}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/alfresco-docker-tika/src/main/resources/application.properties b/alfresco-docker-tika/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..82f9c44e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alfresco-docker-tika/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+queue.engineRequestQueue=${TRANSFORM_ENGINE_REQUEST_QUEUE:org.alfresco.transform.engine.tika.acs}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/alfresco-transformer-base/pom.xml b/alfresco-transformer-base/pom.xml
index e927e55c..9a9abc5c 100644
--- a/alfresco-transformer-base/pom.xml
+++ b/alfresco-transformer-base/pom.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,22 @@
             <groupId>org.alfresco</groupId>
             <artifactId>alfresco-transform-data-model</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-activemq</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
+            <artifactId>activemq-client</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.messaginghub</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pooled-jms</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/AbstractTransformerController.java b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/AbstractTransformerController.java
index 14de0678..e93b7476 100644
--- a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/AbstractTransformerController.java
+++ b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/AbstractTransformerController.java
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractTransformerController implements TransformControll
         logger.info("Received {}, timeout {} ms", request, timeout);
 
         final TransformReply reply = new TransformReply();
+        reply.setInternalContext(request.getInternalContext());
         reply.setRequestId(request.getRequestId());
         reply.setSourceReference(request.getSourceReference());
         reply.setSchema(request.getSchema());
diff --git a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/QueueTransformService.java b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/QueueTransformService.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cc4d546a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/QueueTransformService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+package org.alfresco.transformer;
+
+import javax.jms.Destination;
+import javax.jms.JMSException;
+import javax.jms.Message;
+
+import org.alfresco.transform.client.model.TransformReply;
+import org.alfresco.transform.client.model.TransformRequest;
+import org.alfresco.transformer.messaging.TransformMessageConverter;
+import org.alfresco.transformer.messaging.TransformReplySender;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.jms.annotation.JmsListener;
+import org.springframework.jms.support.converter.MessageConversionException;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+/**
+ * Queue Transformer service.
+ * This service reads all the requests for the particular engine, forwards them to the worker
+ * component (at this time the injected controller - to be refactored) and sends back the reply
+ * to the {@link Message#getJMSReplyTo()} value. If this value is missing we've got to a dead end.
+ *
+ * @author Lucian Tuca
+ * created on 18/12/2018
+ */
+@Component
+public class QueueTransformService
+{
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(QueueTransformService.class);
+
+
+    // TODO: I know this is not smart but all the the transformation logic is in the Controller.
+    // The controller also manages the probes. There's tons of refactoring needed there, hence this. Sorry.
+    @Autowired
+    private TransformController transformController;
+
+    @Autowired
+    private TransformMessageConverter transformMessageConverter;
+
+    @Autowired
+    private TransformReplySender transformReplySender;
+
+    @JmsListener(destination = "${queue.engineRequestQueue}", concurrency = "${jms-listener.concurrency}")
+    public void receive(final Message msg)
+    {
+        final String correlationId = tryRetrieveCorrelationId(msg);
+        Destination replyToDestinationQueue;
+
+        try
+        {
+            replyToDestinationQueue = msg.getJMSReplyTo();
+        }
+        catch (JMSException e)
+        {
+            logger.error("Cannot find 'replyTo' destination queue for message with correlationID {}. Stopping. ", correlationId);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        logger.info("New T-Request from queue with correlationId: {0}");
+
+        TransformReply reply = transformController.transform(convert(msg, correlationId, replyToDestinationQueue), null).getBody();
+
+        transformReplySender.send(replyToDestinationQueue, reply);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Tries to convert the JMS {@link Message} to a {@link TransformRequest}
+     * If any errors occur standard error {@link TransformReply} are sent back
+     *
+     * @param msg Message to be deserialized
+     * @param correlationId CorrelationId of the message
+     * @param destination Needed in case deserialization fails. Passed here so we don't retrieve it again.
+     * @return The converted {@link TransformRequest} instance
+     */
+    private TransformRequest convert(final Message msg, final String correlationId, Destination destination)
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            return (TransformRequest) transformMessageConverter.fromMessage(msg);
+        }
+        catch (MessageConversionException e)
+        {
+            String message = "Message conversion exception during T-Request deserialization: ";
+            logger.error(message + e.getMessage(), e);
+            replyWithBadRequest(destination, message + e.getMessage(), correlationId);
+        }
+        catch (JMSException e)
+        {
+            String message = "JMS exception during T-Request deserialization: ";
+            logger.error(message + e.getMessage(), e);
+            replyWithInternalSvErr(destination, message + e.getMessage(), correlationId);
+        }
+        catch (Exception e)
+        {
+            String message = "Exception during T-Request deserialization: ";
+            logger.error(message + e.getMessage(), e);
+            replyWithInternalSvErr(destination, message + e.getMessage(), correlationId);
+        }
+        catch (Throwable t)
+        {
+            logger.error("Error during T-Request deserialization" + t.getMessage(), t);
+            throw t;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+
+    private void replyWithBadRequest(final Destination destination, final String msg, final String correlationId)
+    {
+        replyWithError(destination, HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST, msg, correlationId);
+    }
+
+    private void replyWithInternalSvErr(final Destination destination, final String msg, final String correlationId)
+    {
+        replyWithError(destination, HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, msg, correlationId);
+    }
+
+    private void replyWithError(final Destination destination, final HttpStatus status, final String msg,
+        final String correlationId)
+    {
+        final TransformReply reply = TransformReply.builder()
+            .withStatus(status.value())
+            .withErrorDetails(msg)
+            .build();
+
+        transformReplySender.send(destination, reply, correlationId);
+    }
+
+    private static String tryRetrieveCorrelationId(final Message msg)
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            return msg.getJMSCorrelationID();
+        }
+        catch (Exception ignore)
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/messaging/MessagingConfig.java b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/messaging/MessagingConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f9a533fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/messaging/MessagingConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package org.alfresco.transformer.messaging;
+
+import javax.jms.ConnectionFactory;
+
+import org.alfresco.transform.client.model.TransformRequestValidator;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.jms.annotation.JmsListenerConfigurer;
+import org.springframework.jms.config.DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory;
+import org.springframework.jms.config.JmsListenerEndpointRegistrar;
+import org.springframework.jms.connection.JmsTransactionManager;
+import org.springframework.lang.NonNull;
+import org.springframework.messaging.handler.annotation.support.DefaultMessageHandlerMethodFactory;
+import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager;
+
+/**
+ * JMS and messaging configuration for the T-Engines. Contains the basic config in order to have the
+ * T-Engine able to read from queues and send a reply back.
+ *
+ * @author Lucian Tuca
+ * created on 18/12/2018
+ */
+@Configuration
+public class MessagingConfig implements JmsListenerConfigurer
+{
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MessagingConfig.class);
+
+    @Override
+    public void configureJmsListeners(@NonNull JmsListenerEndpointRegistrar registrar)
+    {
+        registrar.setMessageHandlerMethodFactory(methodFactory());
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public DefaultMessageHandlerMethodFactory methodFactory()
+    {
+        DefaultMessageHandlerMethodFactory factory = new DefaultMessageHandlerMethodFactory();
+        factory.setValidator(new TransformRequestValidator());
+        return factory;
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory jmsListenerContainerFactory(
+        final ConnectionFactory connectionFactory,
+        final TransformMessageConverter transformMessageConverter)
+    {
+        final DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory factory = new DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory();
+        factory.setConnectionFactory(connectionFactory);
+        factory.setMessageConverter(transformMessageConverter);
+        factory.setErrorHandler(t -> logger.error("JMS error: " + t.getMessage(), t));
+        factory.setTransactionManager(transactionManager(connectionFactory));
+        return factory;
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager(final ConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
+    {
+        final JmsTransactionManager transactionManager = new JmsTransactionManager();
+        transactionManager.setConnectionFactory(connectionFactory);
+        return transactionManager;
+    }
+}
+
+
diff --git a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/messaging/TransformMessageConverter.java b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/messaging/TransformMessageConverter.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1885e519
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/messaging/TransformMessageConverter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2015-2018 Alfresco Software, Ltd.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * License rights for this program may be obtained from Alfresco Software, Ltd.
+ * pursuant to a written agreement and any use of this program without such an
+ * agreement is prohibited.
+ */
+
+package org.alfresco.transformer.messaging;
+
+import javax.jms.JMSException;
+import javax.jms.Message;
+import javax.jms.Session;
+
+import org.alfresco.transform.client.model.TransformReply;
+import org.alfresco.transform.client.model.TransformRequest;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.springframework.jms.support.converter.MappingJackson2MessageConverter;
+import org.springframework.jms.support.converter.MessageConversionException;
+import org.springframework.jms.support.converter.MessageConverter;
+import org.springframework.jms.support.converter.MessageType;
+import org.springframework.lang.NonNull;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JavaType;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory;
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+
+/**
+ * TODO: Duplicated from the Router
+ * Custom wrapper over MappingJackson2MessageConverter for T-Request/T-Reply objects.
+ *
+ * @author Cezar Leahu
+ */
+@Service
+public class TransformMessageConverter implements MessageConverter
+{
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TransformMessageConverter.class);
+
+    private static final MappingJackson2MessageConverter converter;
+    private static final JavaType TRANSFORM_REQUEST_TYPE =
+        TypeFactory.defaultInstance().constructType(TransformRequest.class);
+
+    static
+    {
+        converter = new MappingJackson2MessageConverter()
+        {
+            @Override
+            @NonNull
+            protected JavaType getJavaTypeForMessage(final Message message) throws JMSException
+            {
+                if (message.getStringProperty("_type") == null)
+                {
+                    return TRANSFORM_REQUEST_TYPE;
+                }
+                return super.getJavaTypeForMessage(message);
+            }
+        };
+        converter.setTargetType(MessageType.BYTES);
+        converter.setTypeIdPropertyName("_type");
+        converter.setTypeIdMappings(ImmutableMap.of(
+            TransformRequest.class.getName(), TransformRequest.class,
+            TransformReply.class.getName(), TransformReply.class)
+        );
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    @NonNull
+    public Message toMessage(
+        @NonNull final Object object,
+        @NonNull final Session session) throws JMSException, MessageConversionException
+    {
+            return converter.toMessage(object, session);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    @NonNull
+    public Object fromMessage(@NonNull final Message message) throws JMSException
+    {
+            return converter.fromMessage(message);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/messaging/TransformReplySender.java b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/messaging/TransformReplySender.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aeb768ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transformer/messaging/TransformReplySender.java
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2015-2018 Alfresco Software, Ltd.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * License rights for this program may be obtained from Alfresco Software, Ltd.
+ * pursuant to a written agreement and any use of this program without such an
+ * agreement is prohibited.
+ */
+package org.alfresco.transformer.messaging;
+
+import javax.jms.Destination;
+
+import org.alfresco.transform.client.model.TransformReply;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+/**
+ * TODO: Duplicated from the Router
+ * TransformReplySender Bean
+ * <p/>
+ * JMS message sender/publisher
+ *
+ * @author Cezar Leahu
+ */
+@Component
+public class TransformReplySender
+{
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TransformReplySender.class);
+
+    @Autowired
+    private JmsTemplate jmsTemplate;
+
+    public void send(final Destination destination, final TransformReply reply)
+    {
+        send(destination, reply, reply.getRequestId());
+    }
+
+    public void send(final Destination destination, final TransformReply reply, final String correlationId)
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            //jmsTemplate.setSessionTransacted(true); // do we need this?
+            jmsTemplate.convertAndSend(destination, reply, m -> {
+                m.setJMSCorrelationID(correlationId);
+                return m;
+            });
+            logger.info("Sent: {} - with correlation ID {}", reply, correlationId);
+        }
+        catch (Exception e)
+        {
+            logger.error(
+                "Failed to send T-Reply " + reply + " - for correlation ID " + correlationId, e);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/resources/application.yaml b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/resources/application.yaml
index b02538a2..d91b0f1b 100644
--- a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/resources/application.yaml
+++ b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/main/resources/application.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ spring:
     multipart:
       max-file-size: 8192MB
       max-request-size: 8192MB
+  activemq:
+    broker-url: ${ACTIVEMQ_URL:nio://localhost:61616}?jms.watchTopicAdvisories=false
+    user: ${ACTIVEMQ_USER:admin}
+    password: ${ACTIVEMQ_PASSWORD:admin}
+    pool:
+      enabled: true
+      max-connections: 10
 
 server:
   port: 8090
@@ -18,6 +25,9 @@ logging:
 
 fileStoreUrl: ${FILE_STORE_URL:http://localhost:8099/alfresco/api/-default-/private/sfs/versions/1/file}
 
+jms-listener:
+  concurrency: ${JMS_LISTENER_CONCURRENCY:1-10}
+
 management:
   endpoints:
     web:
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d12b5dbc..b9d3e86d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
         <dependency.alfresco-data-model.version>8.8</dependency.alfresco-data-model.version>
         <dependency.alfresco-jodconverter-core.version>3.0.1.1</dependency.alfresco-jodconverter-core.version>
         <env.project_version>${project.version}</env.project_version>
-        <alfresco-transform-data-model.version>0.0.7</alfresco-transform-data-model.version>
+        <alfresco-transform-data-model.version>0.5.2</alfresco-transform-data-model.version>
+        <dependency.activemq.version>5.15.8</dependency.activemq.version>
+        <dependency.jackson.version>2.9.6</dependency.jackson.version>
     </properties>
 
     <modules>
@@ -80,6 +82,16 @@
                 <artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
                 <version>3.2.6</version>
             </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
+                <version>${dependency.jackson.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
+                <artifactId>activemq-client</artifactId>
+                <version>${dependency.activemq.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
         </dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>