Thanks for the reply, Andy! I tried that as well but then I get a ServletException when it's trying to look up teh conenction factory 2008-02-13 14:42:16,046 [http-8000-1] ERROR org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Standalone].[localhost].[/allocationmessaging].[AllocationMessaging] - Servlet.service() for servlet AllocationMessaging threw exception javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:313) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:228) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104) at com.disney.tomcat.GreenCookieValve.invoke(Unknown Source) at com.disney.tomcat.RequestThrottleValve.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:216) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProcessor.process(Http11NioProcessor.java:888) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11NioProtocol.java:624) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$Worker.run(NioEndpoint.java:1465) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Couple of questions... 1) Does tomcat support external JNDI calls? My tomcat app and the JBOSS App server are on the same machine but they are separate services. 2) If it does then just modifying the initial context to point to JBOSS JNDI should be sufficient, correct (the way I am doing in the code posted earlier)? I should need to modify the server.xml or web.xml on the tomcat side, right? I am sorry if the questions are too trivial :(. I am a newbie with JBoss messaging. Any input/ideas appreciated! thank you jaya View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129443#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...