diff --git a/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/ActiveMQMessageConsumer.java b/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/ActiveMQMessageConsumer.java
index 517e0eaa3d..7cca8cf589 100755
--- a/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/ActiveMQMessageConsumer.java
+++ b/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/ActiveMQMessageConsumer.java
@@ -162,7 +162,6 @@ public class ActiveMQMessageConsumer implements MessageAvailableConsumer, StatsC
         }
 
         this.session = session;
-        this.selector = selector;
         this.redeliveryPolicy = session.connection.getRedeliveryPolicy();
         setTransformer(session.getTransformer());
 
@@ -174,6 +173,7 @@ public class ActiveMQMessageConsumer implements MessageAvailableConsumer, StatsC
         this.info.setNoLocal(noLocal);
         this.info.setDispatchAsync(dispatchAsync);
         this.info.setRetroactive(this.session.connection.isUseRetroactiveConsumer());
+        this.info.setSelector(null);
 
         // Allows the options on the destination to configure the consumerInfo
         if (dest.getOptions() != null) {
@@ -184,11 +184,16 @@ public class ActiveMQMessageConsumer implements MessageAvailableConsumer, StatsC
         this.info.setDestination(dest);
         this.info.setBrowser(browser);
         if (selector != null && selector.trim().length() != 0) {
-            // Validate that the selector
+            // Validate the selector
             new SelectorParser().parse(selector);
             this.info.setSelector(selector);
+            this.selector = selector;
+        } else if (info.getSelector() != null) {
+            // Validate the selector
+            new SelectorParser().parse(this.info.getSelector());
+            this.selector = this.info.getSelector();
         } else {
-            this.info.setSelector(null);
+            this.selector = null;
         }
 
         this.stats = new JMSConsumerStatsImpl(session.getSessionStats(), dest);
diff --git a/activemq-core/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/config/ConfigUsingDestinationOptions.java b/activemq-core/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/config/ConfigUsingDestinationOptions.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ffdc56ba9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activemq-core/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/config/ConfigUsingDestinationOptions.java
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+/**
+ *
+ * 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.config;
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+import org.apache.activemq.command.ActiveMQQueue;
+import org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory;
+import org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQMessageConsumer;
+
+import javax.jms.Connection;
+import javax.jms.JMSException;
+import javax.jms.Session;
+import javax.jms.InvalidSelectorException;
+
+public class ConfigUsingDestinationOptions extends TestCase {
+    public void testValidSelectorConfig() throws JMSException {
+        ActiveMQQueue queue = new ActiveMQQueue("TEST.FOO?consumer.selector=test=1");
+
+        ActiveMQConnectionFactory factory = new ActiveMQConnectionFactory("vm://localhost");
+        Connection conn = factory.createConnection();
+        Session sess = conn.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
+
+        ActiveMQMessageConsumer cons;
+        // JMS selector should be priority
+        cons = (ActiveMQMessageConsumer) sess.createConsumer(queue, "test=2");
+        assertEquals("test=2", cons.getMessageSelector());
+
+        // Test setting using JMS destinations
+        cons = (ActiveMQMessageConsumer) sess.createConsumer(queue);
+        assertEquals("test=1", cons.getMessageSelector());
+    }
+
+    public void testInvalidSelectorConfig() throws JMSException {
+        ActiveMQQueue queue = new ActiveMQQueue("TEST.FOO?consumer.selector=test||1");
+
+        ActiveMQConnectionFactory factory = new ActiveMQConnectionFactory("vm://localhost");
+        Connection conn = factory.createConnection();
+        Session sess = conn.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
+
+        ActiveMQMessageConsumer cons;
+        // JMS selector should be priority
+        try {
+            cons = (ActiveMQMessageConsumer) sess.createConsumer(queue, "test||1");
+            fail("Selector should be invalid");
+        } catch (InvalidSelectorException e) {
+
+        }
+
+        // Test setting using JMS destinations
+        try {
+            cons = (ActiveMQMessageConsumer) sess.createConsumer(queue);
+            fail("Selector should be invalid");
+        } catch (InvalidSelectorException e) {
+
+        }
+    }
+}