jdbc-resources, pools are actually initialized only on first request (eg: first lookup of resource) or redeploy of resource. Probably thats why you do not see jndi entires. But application's first lookup should always succeed.
1) Could you provide the code snippet of your lookup routine ?
2) output of asadmin version --verbose
3) exception if any in server.log
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