Our development team uses maven jetty plugin for our local environment, and our production uses JBoss EAP 6.1

All you need to do is to create a jboss-web.xml in your WEB-INF with something like below:

<resource-ref>

        <res-ref-name>jdbc/MyDS</res-ref-name>

        <jndi-name>java:jboss/jdbc/MyDS</jndi-name>

</resource-ref>

In our web.xml we have something like this:

<resource-ref>

        <res-ref-name>jdbc/MyDS</res-ref-name>

        <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>

        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>

</resource-ref>

Hi,

    In the jboss_datasource  xsd files, the attribute jndi-name its type is a "token" and it is mentioned as "required" something like this :

                                                     <xs:attribute name="jndi-name" type="xs:token" use="required">

    And so, it is required to prefix "java:" for a jndi-name,.....

       <datasources>

           <datasource jndi-name="java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS" pool-name="ExampleDS" enabled="true" use-java-context="true">

       </datasources>

   Hope, this helps....