Can you post the relevant section of your Spring config? Easier than asking 20 questions. :) The docs for the JndiObjectFactoryBean imply it will do the lookup once and cache it. My guess about what you are doing is you are creating a client and using JndiObjectFactoryBean to handle the JNDI lookup, which means you are ending up with a single bean instance in your client. And you want the requests load-balanced, which tells me its a stateless bean. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204840#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...