"gcameo" wrote : | Do i have to include this declaration in the *-ds.xml No you don't need to do that , XSLSubDeployer will do it for you . xml transformation of the -ds.xml and the xsl does create all the required services , you can look for the following entry in the server.log to see the transformed MBeans DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.XSLSubDeployer] transformed into doc: <server> Spend some time is reading this http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ConfigDataSources And here is the stylesheet which is used to transform the -ds.xml to required set of Mbeans . http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/trunk/connector/src/resources/styl... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131594#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...