&quot;scott.stark(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : The standardjboss.xml should be a property on the JBossEjbParsingDeployer. I have added a standardJBossXmlPath for the standardjboss.xml URL, along with an ignoreMissingStandardJBossXml that can be set to false to allow for use of the JBossEjbParsingDeployer without a standardjboss.xml. A pure ejb3 setup would not need it Ok, but I still get the exception. It originates on line 199 URL configUrl = new URL(configPath); and caught and rethrown catch (Exception ex) | { | DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(ex.getMessage(), ex); | } This is without my alteration to embedded bootstrap to set the SERVER_CONFIG_URL and with this xml <bean name="JBossEjb2ParsingDeployer" class="org.jboss.deployment.JBossEjbParsingDeployer"> | <property name="type">ejb2x</property> | <property name="relativeOrder">3001</property> | <property name="useSchemaValidation">false</property> | <property name="ignoreMissingStandardJBossXml">true</property> | </bean> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4110356#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...