Follow up: I loaded the environment with "new Properties(..)" and it still hangs on the call to lookup() View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3989071#3989071 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3989071