I have installed the JBoss 2.4.4 and Tomcat 4.0.1. I copied my application into the Catalina web-apps directory, modified the server.xml file to include my app and started catalina, the application worked fine.
Moving to JBoss I added a datasource for Oracle8 and started JBoss by itself and the datasource was started and initialised.
I shutdown bith JBoss and Tomcat and restarted JBoss with catalina and on checking the server log there was no mention of the datasource and also, when I tried the web app it failed with an error message saying the embedded tomcat did not have a context for my app.
This used to work okay with 2.4.1