tareq zaman [https://community.jboss.org/people/tareq_zaman] created the discussion "Need help accessing a jdbc datasource inside ejb on jboss 7.1.1" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/826053#826053 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I would appreciate any help on this. I have tried so many ways but no success yet. I am trying to test a datasource inside an session ejb in JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final. Using MS SQL server. Getting name not found exception, here is the stack trace. Please note in the code I am using the full JNDI name as java:jboss/datasources/ezsystemDS. 19:20:57,293 ERROR [stderr] (EJB default - 1) javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jboss/datasources/ezsystemDS -- service jboss.naming.context.java.jboss.exported.jboss.datasources.ezsystemDS 19:20:57,306 ERROR [stderr] (EJB default - 1)           at org.jboss.as.naming.ServiceBasedNamingStore.lookup(ServiceBasedNamingStore.java:97) 19:20:57,317 ERROR [stderr] (EJB default - 1)           at org.jboss.as.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:178) 19:20:57,325 ERROR [stderr] (EJB default - 1)           at org.jboss.naming.remote.protocol.v1.Protocol$1.handleServerMessage(Protocol.java:127) 19:20:57,332 ERROR [stderr] (EJB default - 1)           at org.jboss.naming.remote.protocol.v1.RemoteNamingServerV1$MessageReciever$1.run(RemoteNamingServerV1.java:73) 19:20:57,337 ERROR [stderr] (EJB default - 1)           at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) 19:20:57,341 ERROR [stderr] (EJB default - 1)           at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) 19:20:57,344 ERROR [stderr] (EJB default - 1)           at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) 19:20:57,646 INFO  [org.jboss.as.naming] (Remoting "sc1-mis99" task-3) JBAS011806: Channel end notification received, closing channel Channel ID 5643bfb0 (inbound) of Remoting connection 0148380c to null When Jboss starts I can see datasources are bound correctly. Also verified that from JBOSS console naming tree view. [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-14) JBAS010400: Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ezsystemSeqDS] 19:15:45,643 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-7) JBAS010400: Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS] 19:15:45,643 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-11) JBAS010400: Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ezsystemDS] 19:15:45,947 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015951: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990 http://127.0.0.1:9990 19:15:45,948 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015874: JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final Here is my ejb code            public String echo(String input){                         try {                                         InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();                                         DataSource datasrc =  (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:jboss/datasources/ezsystemDS");                                         if(datasrc != null) {                                                   Connection con = datasrc.getConnection();                                                   con.close();                                         }                               } catch (Exception e) {                                         // TODO Auto-generated catch block                                         String x = e.getMessage();                                         e.printStackTrace();                               }                         return "Echoing back " + input ;     } Data sources are configured in module.xml and created using admin console. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/826053#826053] Start a new discussion in Datasource Configuration at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]