"weston.price(a)jboss.com" wrote : Out of curiosity, could you try remove the ear# syntax? | | Then | | Deploy the RAR | Deploy the *-ds.xml file | | Thanks. Ok. I did that and it seems to be working. Bear in mind I've had to change the RAR a little to do this because it is no longer in the .ear but now being deployed seperately. So I put the shared .jars that it needs into the .rar instead of in the .ear. Interestingly, I got this message in the debug trace, which I wasn't getting when I tried to deploy it in the .ear: INFO org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.ConnectionFactoryBindingService Bound ConnectionManager 'jboss.jca:service=ConnectionFactoryBinding,name=index_connection_factory' to JNDI name 'java:index_connection_factory' For some reason it doesn't seem to get as far as binding the connection factory to its JNDI name when deployed in the .ear View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963019#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...