Thanks! I hadn't thought of the fact that jndi can return an rmi stub of the connection factory. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4230390#4230390 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4230390