hello everyone i managed to temporarily bodge my way around the following errors when deploying petstore: [Container factory] No resource manager found for jdbc/EstoreDataSource [Container factory] No resource manager found for jdbc/EstoreDataSource [Container factory] No resource manager found for jdbc/EstoreDataSource [Container factory] No resource manager found for jdbc/SignOnDataSource [Container factory] No resource manager found for mail/MailSession [Container factory] No resource manager found for jdbc/EstoreDataSource [Container factory] No resource manager found for jdbc/InventoryDataSource by changing the name and attribute name of my oracle db in jboss.jcml from OracleDS to DefaultDS - this works, and will have to do until i work out how to define OracleDS as the db to be used by the petstore ejbs. however, i still get the following error: [Container factory] No resource manager found for mail/MailSession i've trawled through the mailing list archives and jboss documentation but found nothing...does anyone know what i need to change to fix this? thanks, simon Simon Bateson ICTeam S.p.A Italia _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user