"timfox" wrote : How are you "killing" your servers? | Shutting down cleanly won't trigger failover. But surely the connections associated with that node will start to fail? At that point our app catches the exceptions and requests a new connection from the connection factory - I would assume we would then receive a connection to one of the nodes that was still operational... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4026490#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...