I am trying to get a simple session bean to access my oracle DB. I can't figure out what all needs to be setup for the JBOSS connection pooling. My java code looks as follows: DataSource dataSource = (DataSource) (new InitialContext()).lookup( "java:comp/env/jdbc/REGENT" ); Connection con = dataSource.getConnection(); Statement stmt = con.createStatement(); I have this wrapped in a try-catch and the error being returned is "JDBC not bound". I guess my issue is not knowing what all xml files need setup for jndi to work properly. Here is what I think : add to web.xml <resource-ref> <description>Regent Datasource</description> <res-ref-name>jdbc/REGENT</res-ref-name> <res-type> javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> add to ejb-jar.xml <resource-ref> <res-ref-name>jdbc/REGENT</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> </resource-ref> any thing else? Thanks! Mike