So, it seems I didn't overlook anything, and there's no existing solution for what I was trying to do. My solution was to develop a custom MBean packaged in a .sar and put it in the deploy directory. It has a function where for simply typing the JNDI name of the datasource, and returning either a success string or the exception if the connection failed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4161816#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...