I am currently running into a situation where on starting my application on JBoss 4, deployment fails as follows:
2009-08-20 21:30:13,527 DEBUG [org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext] Failed to connect to 10.0.100.232:1099 javax.naming.CommunicationException: Failed to connect to server 10.0.100.232:1099 [Root exception is javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException: Failed to connect to server 10.0.100.232:1099 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused]] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.getServer(NamingContext.java:269) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.checkRef(NamingContext.java:1385) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:594) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:587) at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351) at org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate$1.doInContext(JndiTemplate.java:132) at org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate.execute(JndiTemplate.java:88) at org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate.lookup(JndiTemplate.java:130) at org.springframework.jndi.JndiTemplate.lookup(JndiTemplate.java:155) at org.springframework.jndi.JndiLocatorSupport.lookup(JndiLocatorSupport.java:93) at org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectLocator.lookup(JndiObjectLocator.java:105) at org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean.lookupWithFallback(JndiObjectFactoryBean.java:197) at org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(JndiObjectFactoryBean.java:184) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1203) ...