thanks for the suggestion. my datasource file is in my $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy dir and is called employeePerks-oracle-ds.xml. not sure what you are referring to about the context.xml? the war works fine in tomcat 6.0. to port over to jboss, all i did was add the jboss-web.xml file which looks like: | | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> | | <jboss-web> | <security-domain>/employeePerks</security-domain> | <resource-ref> | <res-ref-name>jdbc/employeePerks</res-ref-name> | <jndi-name>java:/employeePerks</jndi-name> | </resource-ref> | | </jboss-web> | | not sure where the problem could be?...thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4221808#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...