I think I am over that issue, the problem was that when I look-up from the server to ClusterConnectionFactory it actually gives me the local instance and it doesn't matter what addresses been mentioned in the java.naming.provider.url. So I have solved that problem by creating another CF on the distant cluster with different JNDI binding. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4258505#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...