Okay the hang was, of course, caused by a bug in my logic. The JNDI look up is working now. Unforutnately the app is still loading ahead the JNDI data source getting created. applicationContext.xml <bean id="photositeDataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean"> | <property name="jndiName" value="java:photosite"/> | <property name="resourceRef" value="false"></property> | </bean> jboss-web.xml <resource-ref> | <res-ref-name>photosite</res-ref-name> | <jndi-name>photosite</jndi-name> | <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> | </resource-ref> | web.xml | <resource-ref> | <description>DB Connection</description> | <res-ref-name>photosite</res-ref-name> | <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> | <res-auth>Container</res-auth> | </resource-ref> photosite-ds.xml | <datasources> | <local-tx-datasource> | <jndi-name>photosite</jndi-name> | <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/photosite</connection-url> | <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class> | <user-name>zxcbvzxcv</user-name> | <password>asfgasdfgqsd</password> | <min-pool-size>1</min-pool-size> | <max-pool-size>5</max-pool-size> | </local-tx-datasource> | </datasources> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4172682#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...