Have a look at: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ConfigDataSources In this, there is a mention of setting: <use-java-context>false<use-java-context> in the datasource configuration. Setting this attribute to false will make it available remotely. This works fine but is not recommended in a production environment, reason being that the database Connection(which you create out of a datasource) is NOT serializable View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962056#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...