Now I understand the logic. However, I am facing a problem in clustered environment having two nodes when using the default cluster-service.xml file. I am able to successfully make two nodes in cluster. I am running a client application that invokes a stateful bean and everything is working fine when I use the following code: props.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory"); props.put("java.naming.provider.url", "localhost:1100"); props.put("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs", "org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces"); My test is to fail over the node so that the other node will serve the client. so, as per the document I changed url to props.put("java.naming.provider.url", "<currentnodeip1>:1100,<another nodeip2>:1100"); But, after shutting down the server the client is also dying. The client could not even connect to the A/S when I changed the url to props.put("java.naming.provider.url", "<currentnodeip1>:1100"); I am very confused as I am using the default configruation xml file. Please help me out. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4067211#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...