Sorry...I meant to ask in my earlier post do I need to modify the server.xml and web.xml to get tomcat to refer to JBoss JNDI resource? I thought the resources specified in those files apply to Tomcat's local JNDI and for any external JNDI access, just modifying the InitialContext should be sufficient. Please correct me if the above is not true. jaya View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129445#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...