A tutorial showing how to browse Oracle AQ (XMLType) using Spring JMS -

<beans ...>
 <bean id="jmsTemplate" class="org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate">
  <property name="connectionFactory" ref="oracleAqConnFactory" />
  <property name="defaultDestination" ref="destination" />
 </bean>
</beans>

package com.sachinhandiekar.oracle.aq;

import java.util.Enumeration;

import javax.jms.Destination;
import javax.jms.JMSException;
import javax.jms.Message;
import javax.jms.Queue;
import javax.jms.QueueBrowser;
import javax.jms.Session;

import oracle.jms.AQjmsAdtMessage;
import oracle.jms.AQjmsQueueBrowser;
import oracle.jms.AQjmsSession;
import oracle.sql.ORADataFactory;
import oracle.xdb.XMLType;

import org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate;
import org.springframework.jms.core.SessionCallback;

public class OracleAQQueueBrowser {

 private JmsTemplate jmsTemplate;

  public void browseMessages() {

  Integer count = (Integer) jmsTemplate.execute(new SessionCallback() {
   public Object doInJms(Session session) throws JMSException {
    int count = 0;
    Queue queue = (Queue) jmsTemplate.getDefaultDestination();

    QueueBrowser browser = ((AQjmsSession) session).createBrowser(queue, null, XMLType.getORADataFactory(),
      true);

    Enumeration messages = browser.getEnumeration();

    while (messages.hasMoreElements()) {
     count++;
     Message message = (Message) messages.nextElement();
     displayMessage(message);
    }

     return new Integer(count);
   }

   private void displayMessage(Message message) {
    try {
     XMLType xmlMsg = (XMLType) ((AQjmsAdtMessage) message).getAdtPayload();
     System.out.println("Message ==> " + xmlMsg.getStringVal());
     System.out.println();
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
    }
   }
  }, true);

  System.out.println("Number of Messages : " + count);
 }

 public void setJmsTemplate(JmsTemplate jmsTemplate) {
  this.jmsTemplate = jmsTemplate;
 }
}