you'll need ojdbc14.jar in the server's lib dir & and change oracle-ds.xml to use Oracle9i type-mapping. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4103687#4103687 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4103687