Unable to lookup datasource in jboss 4.2.2 with spring 2.0.8

[suneetshah]

ello,

I have trying to use the datasource in my JBoss 4.2.2 server, but I am getting the error below. I have tried a number of permutations on the jndi name in the applicationcontext.xml file, but none seem to work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

My jboss xxxDS.xml file look like:

<local-tx-datasource>
 <jndi-name>oracleDS</jndi-name>

My applicationcontext.xml has the following value:

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
 <property name="jndiName">oracleDS</property>

</bean>

I have also tried:
java:OracleDS
java:/oracleDS

All of them result in the following exception:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating

bean with name 'dataSource' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: oracleDS not bound
Caused by:
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: oracleDS not bound
 at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:529)
 at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getBinding(NamingServer.java:537)
 at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.getObject(NamingServer.java:543)
 at org.jnp.server.NamingServer.lookup(NamingServer.java:296)
 at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:667)
 at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:627)
 at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351)
 at org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate$1.doInContext(JndiTemplate.java

[rogerwbmd]

This is my first week into the JBoss world - I am totally newbie. I have the same problem when I add my seam web project into the jboss server. I just find out I can solve the exception by deploy the datasource xml file [PROJECT_ROOT]\resources\test_ds.xml into the server. I don't know why I need to do this, but it seems working.