Hi, if you have problems you may use my experience. 1. Make sure the JDBC driver is lib/ext 2. Make sure the postmaster is started with -i option. 3. Make sure youre URL is right. I had the following problem: If my URL is like <attribute name="URL">jdbc:postgresql://mona/myWMS</attribute>, i got startup problems. Startup blocked if the blocking attribute was set. ... [myWMS] Starting [myWMS] XA Connection pool myWMS bound to java:/myWMS Or startup throws an exception ... [PostgresDS] Starting [PostgresDS] XA Connection pool myWMS bound to java:/myWMS [PostgresDS] Stopped [PostgresDS] java.lang.NullPointerException [PostgresDS] at org.opentools.minerva.jdbc.xa.XAPoolDataSource.getConnection(XAPoolDataSource.java:165) [PostgresDS] at org.jboss.jdbc.XADataSourceLoader.startService(XADataSourceLoader.java:330) ... if the blocking attribute is not set. The blocking attribute is not the problem, it's the URL. I changed my URL to: <attribute name="URL">jdbc:postgresql://mona.iml.fhg.de/myWMS</attribute> and got a working connection. I inserted the full qualified address. I seems to me that there is a problem resolving the name mona to the right IP-address. Ping doesn't have this trouble. Now my working configuration. <!-- Drivers that could be used by jBoss --> <mbean code="org.jboss.jdbc.JdbcProvider" name="DefaultDomain:service=JdbcProvider"> <attribute name="Drivers">org.postgresql.Driver</attribute> </mbean> <!-- PostgreSQL --> <mbean code="org.jboss.jdbc.XADataSourceLoader" name="DefaultDomain:service=XADataSource,name=PostgresDB"> <attribute name="PoolName">DefaultDS</attribute> <attribute name="DataSourceClass">org.opentools.minerva.jdbc.xa.wrapper.XADataSourceImpl</attribute> <attribute name="Properties"></attribute> <attribute name="URL">jdbc:postgresql://mona.iml.fhg.de/myWMS</attribute> <attribute name="GCMinIdleTime">1200000</attribute> <attribute name="JDBCUser">buerger</attribute> <attribute name="MaxSize">10</attribute> <attribute name="Password">ojd</attribute> <attribute name="GCEnabled">false</attribute> <attribute name="InvalidateOnError">false</attribute> <attribute name="TimestampUsed">false</attribute> <attribute name="Blocking">true</attribute> <attribute name="GCInterval">120000</attribute> <attribute name="IdleTimeout">1800000</attribute> <attribute name="IdleTimeoutEnabled">false</attribute> <attribute name="LoggingEnabled">false</attribute> <attribute name="MaxIdleTimeoutPercent">1.0</attribute> <attribute name="MinSize">1</attribute> </mbean> I hope it helps somebody. Haug Bürger _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user