raju k [http://community.jboss.org/people/komariraj] created the discussion "Can not get JNDI connection from Data sourceSQLState with oracle 10g" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/546225#546225 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all i am using jboss portal 2.6.8 server with oracle 10g.. i am getting follwing  exception when creating datasource object for Oracle 10g using JNDI. *Can not get JNDI connection from Data sourceSQLState: null Vendor Code:  0 Could not create connection; - nested throwable:  (java.lang.NullPointerException); - nested throwable:  (org.jboss.resource.JBossResourceException: Could not create connection; -  nested throwable: (java.lang.NullPointerException))* *step-1: portal-oracle-ds.xml* <datasources>   <local-tx-datasource>     <jndi-name>jndiname</jndi-name>     <connection-url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@server:orcl</connection-url>     <driver-class>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</driver-class>     <user-name>user</user-name>     <password>password</password>   </local-tx-datasource> </datasources> I copied this xml file in to deploy folder of jboss. *s**tep: 2* classes12.jar copied in my war file lib only * * *step-3*: in my java code ...                 line-1:  InitialContext initialContext = new InitialContext();                                              line-2: DataSource dataSource = (DataSource)initialContext.lookup("java:/jndiname");                                     line-3: java.sql.Connection dbconnection = dataSource.getConnection();  when ever i am  executing line-3, getting above exception... if any body knows about this problam ,  please help... Thanks in advance.. Raju.K * * -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/546225#546225] Start a new discussion in JBoss Portal Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]