Since it seems you're not interested in the load balancing/automatic failover abilities of JBM, you could just use the non clustered connection factory at /NonClusteredConnectionFactory to create connections. If you use this then JBM won't attempt automatic failover. If you want to connect to different servers you need to connect to the JNDI for each server of interest and use the appropriate connection factory from each. See connection-factories-service.xml to see how this is condifgured. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4026537#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...