Peter, are you sure that server/jbossweb-standalone supports datastores ? It doesn't seem that to me. I hope I;m not wrong but when I copy the -ds.xml file in the deploy of the server/jbossweb-standalone nothing happends, no error, nothing. When I do the same thing with the default configuration it works fine. I suppose there are some more services that jbossweb-standalone needs in order to be able to deploy a -ds.xml. I hope I am not worng.