Gerry Matte [http://community.jboss.org/people/gerry.matte] commented on the document "Data Source Configuration in AS 7" To view all comments on this document, visit: http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-16657#comment-6970 -------------------------------------------------- I followed the example as much as possible - the only changes made were in the module.xml to replace the datasource name and pool-name of MySqlDS with TestDS and I also corrected the typo  share-prepared-statement should have been plural share-prepared-statements I copied my mysql-connector-java-5.1.15-bin.jar into the [JBOSS_HOME]/modules/com/mysql/main where the module.xml resides When I started the server, I saw the message    New missing/unsatisfied dependencies:       service jboss.jdbc-driver.com_mysql (missing) Turns out that the jar file name used in module.xml did not end with -bin.jar like the driver jar downloaded from the mysql website.  I corrected the resource-root path attribute to correctly specify the jar file name. It's a small mistake but I'll post this anyway in case anyone else has a similar renamed driver jar to contend with. --------------------------------------------------