Peter Johnson [http://community.jboss.org/people/peterj] replied to the discussion "Connection problem to mySQL database" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/534001#534001 -------------------------------------------------------------- You should be acccessing a database connection via the connection pool manager. Do this instead: InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:MySQLDB");  // Name used in *-ds.xml file Connection conn = ds.getConnection(); -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/534001#534001] Start a new discussion in Datasource Configuration at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]