Using Connector/J with JBoss
These instructions cover JBoss-4.x. To make the JDBC driver classes available to the application server, copy the .jar file that comes with Connector/J to the lib directory for your server configuration (which is usually called default). Then, in the same configuration directory, in the subdirectory named deploy, create a datasource configuration file that ends with '-ds.xml', which tells JBoss to deploy this file as a JDBC Datasource. The file should have the following contents: