I have an issue with JBoss where clients are connecting to an EJB (2.0) during the server startup before JBoss has bound my jdbc connection to the EJB. This is causing some bad issues in my bean. I've coded around it, but is this the expected behavior during server startup? I would have thought that the EJB would not be accessible until all <env-entry> items have been successfully bound to their respective beans. I've searched the forums and the documentation, and have not been able to find anything that specifically addresses this question. Is this expected behavior? Is there some configuration parameter I can use to not allow connections to my EJB before it is fully initialized? Below is the relevant part of the log for my server startup. 2007-10-05 13:38:02,877 INFO :ProxyFactory.java:493 - Bound EJB Home 'ClientApiBean' to jndi 'ClientApiBean' 2007-10-05 13:38:02,887 INFO :ProxyFactory.java:493 - Bound EJB Home 'JdsInfoBean' to jndi 'JdsInfoBean' 2007-10-05 13:38:03,107 ERROR:ClientApiBean.java:84 - javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jdbc not bound 2007-10-05 13:38:03,107 ERROR:ClientApiBean.java:84 - javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jdbc not bound 2007-10-05 13:38:03,117 INFO :EJBDeployer.java:664 - Deployed: file:/proj/jdsdev/test_metrics/xcojdsdev4/env/Misc/jds/release/jds/server/jboss/server/jds/deploy/jdsejb.jar 2007-10-05 13:38:03,187 ERROR:ClientApiBean.java:84 - javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jdbc not bound 2007-10-05 13:38:03,197 ERROR:ClientApiBean.java:109 - javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jdbc not bound 2007-10-05 13:38:03,237 INFO :TomcatDeployer.java:126 - deploy, ctxPath=/jmx-console, warUrl=.../deploy/jmx-console.war/ 2007-10-05 13:38:03,377 ERROR:ClientApiBean.java:84 - javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jdbc not bound 2007-10-05 13:38:03,417 INFO :Http11BaseProtocol.java:156 - Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-0.0.0.0-9080 2007-10-05 13:38:03,487 INFO :ChannelSocket.java:387 - JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009 2007-10-05 13:38:03,497 ERROR:ClientApiBean.java:84 - javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jdbc not bound 2007-10-05 13:38:03,497 INFO :JkMain.java:343 - Jk running ID=0 time=0/30 config=null 2007-10-05 13:38:03,507 INFO :ServerImpl.java:504 - JBoss (MX MicroKernel) [4.0.5.GA (build: CVSTag=Branch_4_0 date=200610162339)] Started in 14s:371ms The last line of the log is where I believe the Server is ready for connections (all EJBs have had their resources bound to them). As you can see by the errors, clients are able to lookup the ClientApiBean and perform operations on the bean before the last log line is reached, which means that the "jdbc" entry is not yet bound to the EJB. If I stop all clients, bring the server up, then start all clients, everything runs just peachy. Is this the expected startup behavior? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4092163#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...