I did what you suggested - and It still added the datasource on the global jndi tree. In this case, i put my test datasource in the META-INF directory. | <jboss-app> | <module> | <service>META-INF/datasource1-ds.xml</service> | </module> | </jboss-app> | When the application is deployed, I see: INFO [ConnectionFactoryBindingService] Unbound ConnectionManager 'jboss.jca:service=DataSourceBinding,name=datasource1' from JNDI name 'java:datasource1' on the console. A second applications (DBTester) can read the datasoure by issuing a | INFO [ConnectionFactoryBindingService] Unbound ConnectionManager 'jboss.jca:service=DataSourceBinding,name=datasource1' from JNDI name 'java:datasource1' | Thanks for the suggestion, other ideas? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4250002#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...