Since 1994, we have designed and prototyped several industrial messaging services over different platforms. Our experiments have been based on ISO-MMS standard and TASE.2. This paper describes the lessons learned from these past projects, and some of our activities in designing a next generation of industrial messaging services. Faced with a fast changing world of communication protocols, a stringent requirement for these services is to be easily adaptable to new protocols (yesterday ONC-RPC and CORBA, today SOAP/XML). Recent software engineering researches introduced the notion of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) to cope with such a need in adaptability. This paper demonstrates the viability of this approach in addressing our requirement.