Amber Crawford [http://community.jboss.org/people/amberjboss1999] created the discussion "Cannot inject field annotated with @Resource annotation in JBOSS 6" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/630975#630975 -------------------------------------------------------------- I am building a ear project using maven and embed a webservice war in it ;   the testDataSource is the jndi name defined like this under *JBOSS AS 6 deploy* directory: <jndi-name>testDataSource</jndi-name> The web service endpoint is defined as: @Stateless() *@Resource(mappedName="testDataSource")* @TransactionManagement(TransactionManagementType.BEAN) @WebContext(contextRoot="/testMe") @WebService(name="TestDataSourceService", serviceName = "TestDataSourceServiceBeanService", portName = "TestDataSourceServicePort", targetNamespace = " http://testDataSource/ http://testDataSource/") @SOAPBinding() public class TestWSServiceBean extends TestServiceImpl { .... } the war(webservice) also has a dependency (so under *WEB-INF/lib/testDataSource.jar* with *@Resource(mappedName="testDataSource")* *that is class TestServiceImpl  {* @Resource(mappedName="java:tx_vantive")           protected DataSource dataSource; * * -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/630975#630975] Start a new discussion in JBoss Web Services at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]