I posted in both places since I had read a message on that board that said a different poster's question belonged on this board since it was dealing with the connection-factories. For the archives: I was able to get it to work once I moved the mbean description into its own file and out of the jms-ds.xml file. I was told it should work in either place, but I ran out of time trying to figure out why it wasn't working for me to combine them. Besides, having a separate file makes it easier to deploy and manage, so it is a better solution anyway. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4236083#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...