Sure enough. I had a spurious "portal" prefixed to the jndi-path in the components.xml. Thanks Gavin. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3994513#3994513 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3994513