That was my initial suspicion, since a part of the application was contained within a SAR archive. However, even after modifying jboss-service.xml to use the org.jboss.deployment.scanner.PrefixDeploymentSorter and prefixing the name of the -ds.xml file with the number 1 the error message has not changed. The server logs have a line that states: Ignoring create request for service: jboss.jca:service=DataSourceBinding,name=PPGDS The strange thing is when i access the value through the JMX console i can see it initialized within the JNDI. The contents of the -ds.xml file are pretty mundane, just the initialisation data for a single Oracle datasource. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4185704#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...