Hi, > My connection pool however large gets used so JBOSS hangs waiting for a > fresh unused connection. This problem is not in the application code > rather something do with either the configuration of jboss or a bug in > connection pool handling classes. this IS application code issue. There is a method which does not propperly close either ResultSet, PreparedStatement or Connection! make sure to ALWAYS use something like: Connection con=null; PreparedStatement prepStmt=null; ResultSet rs=null; try { DataSource _dataSource=null; try { InitialContext context = new InitialContext(); _dataSource = (DataSource) context.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/somedb"); } catch (Exception nx) { throw new SQLException("DS lookup failed (" + nx.toString() + ")"); } con= _dataSource.getConnection(); prepStmt = con.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM Table"); rs = prepStmt.executeQuery(); if( rs.next() ) { //do something } } catch(SQLException Ex) { log.error("Error accessing DataSource"); log.exception(Ex); } finally { if( rs!=null) try { rs.close(); } catch(Exception Ex) { rs=null; } if( prepStmt!=null) try { prepStmt.close(); } catch(Exception Ex) { prepStmt=null; } if( con!=null) try { con.close(); } catch(Exception Ex) { con=null; } } so all DB-Pool related gets properly closed. (You may do a lookup on the DataSource in setEntityContext, but you should NOT obtain a connection there) Burkhard _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user