The org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory.createCallbackHandler(Properties) method does not look for the Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL/Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS among the system properties. This means that these values either need to be passed in via a jboss-naming-client.properties or through the env passed to InitialContextFactory. Wouldn't be better if we looked for all of the following as system properties to allow system properties to be a complete specification of what is needed for a secure jndi connection? java.naming.security.principal java.naming.security.credentials jboss.naming.client.security.callback.handler.class jboss.naming.client.security.password.base64 jboss.naming.client.security.realm _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev