diff --git a/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/xbean/XBeanBrokerFactory.java b/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/xbean/XBeanBrokerFactory.java
index 5ca5c86846..8139bd624f 100644
--- a/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/xbean/XBeanBrokerFactory.java
+++ b/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/xbean/XBeanBrokerFactory.java
@@ -20,14 +20,18 @@ import java.beans.PropertyEditorManager;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFactoryHandler;
 import org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService;
+import org.apache.activemq.util.IntrospectionSupport;
+import org.apache.activemq.util.URISupport;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.xbean.spring.context.ResourceXmlApplicationContext;
 import org.apache.xbean.spring.context.impl.URIEditor;
 import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;
 import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
@@ -46,7 +50,22 @@ public class XBeanBrokerFactory implements BrokerFactoryHandler {
         PropertyEditorManager.registerEditor(URI.class, URIEditor.class);
     }
 
+    private boolean validate = true;
+    public boolean isValidate() {
+        return validate;
+    }
+
+    public void setValidate(boolean validate) {
+        this.validate = validate;
+    }
+
     public BrokerService createBroker(URI config) throws Exception {
+        
+        Map map = URISupport.parseParameters(config);
+        if (!map.isEmpty()) {
+            IntrospectionSupport.setProperties(this, map);
+            config = URISupport.removeQuery(config);
+        }
 
         String uri = config.getSchemeSpecificPart();
         ApplicationContext context = createApplicationContext(uri);
@@ -93,6 +112,11 @@ public class XBeanBrokerFactory implements BrokerFactoryHandler {
         } else {
             resource = new ClassPathResource(uri);
         }
-        return new ResourceXmlApplicationContext(resource);
+        return new ResourceXmlApplicationContext(resource) {
+            @Override
+            protected void initBeanDefinitionReader(XmlBeanDefinitionReader reader) {
+                reader.setValidating(isValidate());
+            }
+        };
     }
 }
diff --git a/activemq-core/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/broker/OutOfOrderXMLTest.java b/activemq-core/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/broker/OutOfOrderXMLTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..11fbb56902
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activemq-core/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/broker/OutOfOrderXMLTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.activemq.broker;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import org.apache.activemq.xbean.XBeanBrokerFactory;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+// https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2939
+public class OutOfOrderXMLTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void verifyBrokerCreationWhenXmlOutOfOrderValidationFalse() throws Exception {
+        BrokerService answer =
+                BrokerFactory.createBroker(new URI("xbean:org/apache/activemq/broker/out-of-order-broker-elements.xml?validate=false"));
+        answer.stop();
+
+    }    
+}
diff --git a/activemq-core/src/test/resources/org/apache/activemq/broker/out-of-order-broker-elements.xml b/activemq-core/src/test/resources/org/apache/activemq/broker/out-of-order-broker-elements.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..245d946f50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activemq-core/src/test/resources/org/apache/activemq/broker/out-of-order-broker-elements.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!-- this file can only be parsed using the xbean-spring library with validation off -->
+<beans
+  xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
+  http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd
+  http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">
+
+  <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer" />
+
+    <broker xmlns="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core">
+        <systemUsage>
+            <systemUsage>
+                <memoryUsage>
+                    <memoryUsage limit="20 mb"/>
+                </memoryUsage>
+                <storeUsage>
+                    <storeUsage limit="1 gb" name="foo"/>
+                </storeUsage>
+                <tempUsage>
+                    <tempUsage limit="100 mb"/>
+                </tempUsage>
+            </systemUsage>
+        </systemUsage>
+        <destinations>
+            <queue physicalName="FOO.BAR"/>
+            <topic physicalName="SOME.TOPIC"/>
+        </destinations>
+
+    </broker>
+
+</beans>