I haven't looked at your problem specifically but i ran into a similar issue when deploying a database datasource - i found that what i had to do was specify the datasource in the global jndi namespace instead of the local. You might want to investigate your configuration for this. For a datasource, you can configure this using the <use-java-context>false</use-java-context> option in a datasource config file to specify that it sould be added to the global namespace instead of the "java:" namespace. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979986#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...