thanx again vicky it worked with the server .. i mean server log is clean withou tany exception it says it has boung my data source" but when i deploy my struts application : it gives exception javax.naming.NamingException: resource-ref: oracleDS has no valid JNDI binding. Check the jboss-web/resource-ref i tried it like this : my context.xml entry reads as : i tried for both "java:oracleDS" and "oracleDS" it gave same exception ... oracleDS has no valid JNDI binding. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4046457#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...