With the conf/jboss-service.xml refactoring, I'm seeing the following NPE for some tests (org.jboss.test.hello.test.HelloTimingStressTestCase). | 00:28:25,855 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Start: name=jboss.j2ee:module="hello.jar",service=EjbModule state=Create mode=Manual requiredState=Installed | java.lang.NullPointerException | at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.initStoreManager(JDBCStoreManager.java:415) | at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.start(JDBCStoreManager.java:368) | at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CMPPersistenceManager.start(CMPPersistenceManager.java:172) | at org.jboss.ejb.EjbModule.startService(EjbModule.java:511) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:376) | ... | It looks like the EjbModule is starting the pm before the entity container has been started. Why don't we start the pm from the EntityContainer.startService? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4183129#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...