Also, please realize that if you've gotten something out of JNDI over the naming service, you should already have a connection to the server (or as Brian points out, at least one of the cluster). Or the server may have a connection to you. Getting or creating the proxy should not necessarily cause the creation of a connection, in my opinion. We need to figure out a way to decouple the creation of connections from the service (they even have separate URI schemes), otherwise the whole idea of multiple clients sharing a connection is defeated. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4267153#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...