"Wolfgang Knauf" wrote : | Is there any check that the object declared through the resource-env-ref/resource-ref element is actually of the correct type? It seems the error message for resource-env-ref is only coming if the declared class is not found at all by the classloader, but if it is just wrong, there is no error message. Is this worth one more JIRA ;-)? | | Wolfgang AFAIK, there isn't any check. Please add the comments to the existing JIRA for the missing validation and if possible attach the same application. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4241634#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...