Your best choices would be either database or jndi if you don't want it in the ear file / hierarchy. I would use jndi if your sysadmin is configuring the file location as it is easier for them to change the files that store the jndi settings than it would be to update a database. If you go for database, you can get the server's host name and use that as a filter in case all the app servers are going to the same db. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4067808#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...