I would love to do things that way. Here lies my problem. I have a stateful service. The service needs to keep a TCP connection open to an external resource. Everytime I get a connection from the pool, it must be exactly the same one I used before for this session. I tried to play around with the BySubject and ByApplication settings but found it easier to just open a connection at the beginning and close it on remove. If there are better ways to do this I am all ears. thanks for the help. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4055284#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...