My application-context.xml defines the following: I have no resource-ref in either my web.xml or my jboss-web.xml. To answer your question I am just deploying my application as a .WAR file into the deploy directory of my server config. Another thing to note is that I switched over to debug mode and get the following in the log. ----- Log: 13:38:43,813 DEBUG TransactionSynchronizationManager:84 - Initializing transaction synchronization 13:38:43,813 DEBUG TransactionInterceptor:84 - Getting transaction for com.firstam.mlsdatachecker.jdbc.manager.IConfigDataManager.getAllTimeZones 13:38:43,813 DEBUG SqlMapClientTemplate:84 - Opened SqlMapSession [com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.impl.SqlMapSessionImpl@1d22104] for iBATIS operation 13:38:43,844 DEBUG TransactionSynchronizationManager:84 - Bound value [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.ConnectionHolder@29d50d] for key [org.jboss.invocation.jrmp.interfaces.JRMPInvokerProxy@8f2588] to thread [main] 13:38:43,844 DEBUG TransactionSynchronizationManager:84 - Bound value [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.ConnectionHolder@8523a0] for key [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.TransactionAwareDataSourceProxy@9fa2fb] to thread [main] 13:38:43,860 DEBUG SqlMapClientTemplate:84 - Obtained JDBC Connection [2807456] for iBATIS operation 13:38:43,891 DEBUG TransactionSynchronizationManager:84 - Retrieved value [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.ConnectionHolder@29d50d] for key [org.jboss.invocation.jrmp.interfaces.JRMPInvokerProxy@8f2588] bound to thread [main] 13:38:44,188 INFO XmlBeanDefinitionReader:94 - Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [org/springframework/jdbc/support/sql-error-codes.xml] 13:38:44,219 INFO SQLErrorCodesFactory:94 - SQLErrorCodes loaded: [DB2, Derby, HSQL, Informix, MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase] 13:38:44,563 DEBUG TransactionSynchronizationManager:84 - Retrieved value [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.ConnectionHolder@8523a0] for key [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.TransactionAwareDataSourceProxy@9fa2fb] bound to thread [main] 13:38:44,641 DEBUG TransactionSynchronizationManager:84 - Retrieved value [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.ConnectionHolder@8523a0] for key [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.TransactionAwareDataSourceProxy@9fa2fb] bound to thread [main] 13:38:44,641 DEBUG TransactionSynchronizationManager:84 - Retrieved value [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.ConnectionHolder@8523a0] for key [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.TransactionAwareDataSourceProxy@9fa2fb] bound to thread [main] View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3983118#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...