You cannot access JCA resources outside of JBoss. The reason your code is failing is that the java: namespace is not available. *-ds.xml definitions are only for resources that are targeted to be used in the EE container. If you simply want to post to destination outside of JBoss, create the destination and use the JNDI lookup | Properties properties = new Properties(); | properties.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory"); | properties.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, "org.jnp.interfaces"); | properties.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "localhost:3099"); | InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(properties); | Object obj = ctx.lookup("ConnectionFactory"); | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992347#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...