Hi jaikiran , thanks for the prompt reply but I had already taken care of the oracle-ds.xml file attributes and everything looks fine over there to me here is the snapshot of the same <min-pool-size>0</min-pool-size> <max-pool-size>100</max-pool-size> <blocking-timeout-millis>30000</blocking-timeout-millis> <idle-timeout-minutes>3</idle-timeout-minutes> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122493#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...