Is it just with the GUI that this fails? What about when you directly try and do a remove("/") via JMX? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4006697#4006697 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4006697